West 4th Street Courts on “Home Turf Spots”, a list by Marcus Hale on TheLysts.

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Neighborhood
Greenwich Village, Manhattan
Primary Sport
Streetball
Typical Crowd
Local hoopers, students, tourists glued to the fence
Best Time
Warm-weather late afternoons and early evenings
Tickets / Access
Public courts; just walk up
Noise Level
Constant trash talk, subway rumble, car horns
Architecture / Setting
Tight chain-link cage wedged into a crooked corner of the Village
My take
It’s a tiny court that feels like a theater. The fence is basically the mezzanine, and every clean jumper sounds different off the backboard, the brick, and the passing F train.
Address
330 6th Avenue, New York, NY 10014
City
New York, NY