joana toro

DOCUMENTARY PHOTOGRAPHER

www.joanatoro.com

Sports: Handball- NYC

Location: Bogota - New York

Nationality: Colombian

Biography: Joana Toro Colombian is a self-taught photographer based in both New York City and Bogota, Colombia. Her work explores issues of immigration, human rights and identity and was featured on The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, World Press... MORE

Coney Island Handball Courts player.

Coney Island Handball Courts players.

Coney Island Handball Courts player.

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Public Story

Sports: Handball- NYC

Copyright joana toro 2024

Date of Work Aug 2020 - Ongoing

Updated Apr 2023

Location New York City Coney Island

Topics editorial [featured]

Summary

Coney Island Handball Courts players

In 1930s FDR's Works Progress Administration was an ambitious employment and infrastructure program created by President Roosevelt in 1935, during the bleakest years of the Great Depression. They built hundreds of handball courts in schoolyards, parks and beaches throughout New York City. Handball is still played in all five boroughs, but in Coney Island is the core of one-wall handball

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