Brooklyn, NY – For City Councilman Robert Cornegy, who was a neighbor of The Notorious B.I.G.’s in his youth, a feat involving the late ra...
Brooklyn, NY – For City Councilman Robert Cornegy, who was a neighbor of The Notorious B.I.G.’s in his youth, a feat involving the late rapper has finally been accomplished.
The New York Daily News reports that after years of work, Cornegy has organized for a basketball court located inside a Brooklyn playground to be renamed after Biggie.
“This honor is very personal to me,” City Councilman Cornegy told the New York Daily News. “Twenty years later, this comes full circle, this renaming of the basketball courts in his honor.”
And in a tweet made Tuesday (July 18), Cornegy revealed he was “[h]appy to finally be getting this done for Ms. Wallace.”
Happy to finally be getting this done for Ms. Wallace https://t.co/t64E9837Mg #TheNotoriousBIG #biggie #biggiesmalls
— Robert E Cornegy, Jr (@RobertCornegyJr) July 19, 2017
The basketball court will be located in the Crispus Attucks Playground in Bedford-Stuyvesant.
This week’s good news comes years after Cornegy attempted to have a portion of St. James Place, a street that runs through what is now considered Clinton Hill, Brooklyn, named after Biggie.
Residents in the newly gentrified Brooklyn neighborhood reportedly shot down the idea because of the content of Biggie’s music and his drug-dealing past.
The renaming ceremony is scheduled to take place on August 1 or August 2.
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