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street games

Game playing: the stoop, the street and the schoolyard

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(Photo: Museum of the City of New York, Berenice Abbot)

(Cross-posted from Black Kos )

I was thinking today about growing up in NY (with part of each summer in Philly) and had memories of games I learned to play sitting on the stoop, or out on the sidewalk(or in the street dodging traffic)in Brooklyn, realizing that many of us share those same urban memories, though some are probably culturally specific. Others are generational – not sure how many kids still play simple games that don’t have a game controllers attached these days, but I can hope.