— -- Long ago, before basketball became a billion-dollar business and turned gifted black boys into commodities, there lived a man in Harlem who loved his neighborhood. Born in 1926, Holcombe ...

Marvin “Hammer” Stevens surveys the court at Rucker Park from the shade of a tent by the baseline, shaking his head at the game of streetball before him. A player misses a layup, then grabs his own ...

“Bounce: A Basketball Opera” will be staged at Holcombe Rucker Park, where Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Julius Erving have played. By James Barron Good morning. It’s Thursday. Today we’ll find out about an ...

Holcombe Rucker Park is nestled in the triangle of the Harlem River, 155th Street and the part of Eighth Avenue known as Frederick Douglass Boulevard. At first glance, the Greg Marius Court looks like ...

The energy in Harlem is about to reach a fever pitch as the HBCU All-Star Dream Classic 2025 takes over the iconic courts of Rucker Park. On the sunlit blacktop where legends are made and streetball ...