Connie Hawkins was destined for basketball stardom until his career was unjustly derailed. But a new effort to honor him is complicated by one fact. He’s not the only legend in the neighborhood.
Source: New York Times
Connie Hawkins and the Battle to Rename a Brooklyn Playground
Published in Basketball, Bedford-Stuyvesant (Brooklyn, NY), Brooklyn (NYC) and Hawkins, Cornelius (Connie) (1942-2017)
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