Cornegy uses skills he learned as basketball player in council career
Councilmember Robert Cornegy Jr. can tell you how the ball bounces, both in politics and in life.
The freshman councilmember was the back-up center on the legendary St. John’s University basketball team that went to the Final Four in the 1984-1985 National Collegiate Athletic Association season. “That team was adopted by New York. It was a New York team,” he told the Brooklyn Eagle.