Hugo Cabrera Way (Manhattan)
Present name:None
Location:At the intersection of 173rd Street and Amsterdam Avenue
Honoree: Hugo Cabrera (1953-2021) is considered the best Dominican basketball player of all time and one of the best Latin Americans players He was born in Santo Domingo and emigrated with his mother to New York City where he lived in Harlem until he was 18 years old. He attended Brandeis High School where he was on several All-Star teams, winning him a scholarship to East Texas State University, now known as Texas A & M Univerity--Commerce. His college-level accomplishments included playing 122 consecutive games, a record in force until 2009, scoring 1,458 points and snagging 842 rebounds. He was also the first player drafted by the NBA at Texas State. At the nationa level, Cabrera participated in many international tournaments. He ended up playing with the Wilkes-Barre and Allentown teams in the Continental Basketball Association (CBA) where he averaged 33.6 points per game. He died on March 23, 2021 in New York City as a result of pancreatic cancer. He was 67 years old. (Rodriguez)
LL:2022/54