Brooklyn quietly leads the world in producing squash champions
Brooklyn Heights is widely known for many things: historic preservation; high real estate values; serving as home to numerous lawyers, investment bankers and writers; squash…SQUASH?
We’re not referring to the vegetable. The internationally popular racquet sport played in a small room (18.5 x 21 feet) with a small, hollow rubber ball has been called the perfect urban game and was ranked the number one healthiest sport by Forbes in 2003.
Brooklyn Heights became a mecca for squash during the 1970s after a husband and wife team developed a vibrant junior program at the Heights Casino starting in the late ’60s.