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'Nay's Place': Basketball Courts In Region Dedicated To Teen Athlete Killed In Crash 'Nay's Place': Basketball Courts In Region Dedicated To Teen Athlete Killed In Crash
'Nay's Place': Basketball Courts In Region Dedicated To Teen Athlete Killed In Crash A Capital District city is honoring a young athlete who died just months after graduating high school. Schenectady High School alum Naylon “Nay” Carrington was killed in a car crash in October 2020 at the age of 18, according to relatives. Not long after, loved ones started a petition on Change.org asking Schenectady Mayor Gary McCarthy and the city council to rename the Central Park Basketball Court in his honor. Carrington spent hours playing on the court, “bettering his game and gaining mental and physical clarity,” said Jerome Steele, the petition’s organizer. “He would frequent with…

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by Michael Mashburn