Boys of 2nd Street Park
The Boys of 2nd Street Park is a 2003 documentary film. It premiered at the 2003 Sundance Film Festival and won of Best Documentary at the River Run Film Festival. The film recounts the lives of 5 boys in Brighton Beach Brooklyn, NY during the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s, then reunites the men in modern day to share their triumphs and tragedies.
In The Boys of 2nd Street Park, a new documentary AbOUT Satin and five of his basketball-playing boyhood friends. "I knew this could be a good story because so many different things had happened to people," said the soft-spoken Klores, sounding more like an introvert than a Schmoozer. "You have a group of guys, and one is homeless, one wins a $45 million lottery, two lose their children and one lives without electricity or running water in Woodstock, N.Y." - Dan Klores
When Brian Newmark was growing up in Brooklyn's Brighton Beach neighborhood, basketball was king. "Everybody would rush home from school, throw the books down, and run off to the park to play basketball," said Brian Newmark, 53, a clinical psychologist from Lincoln featured in a new documentary about a group of friends who grew up in New York. "It was this protected, safe environment, yet it gave you practice in being in this bigger, social world." Brian Newmark went on to Captain one of Harvard University's winningest mens basketball teams.
Featuring
- Bernie Bandman
- Frankie Bass
- Larry Brown
- Bobby Feld
- Brian Newmark
- Madelyne Ryterband
- Steve Satin