Trying my best to display the photographs chronologically, I still could’t find the exact year of a small amount of pictures. Thus, those without numbers of years under are arranged based upon verbal resources, historical context, and my personal assumptions. Please do not reference this page as a professional resource.
Reference Links:
Manhattan _ 6th Avenue – 3rd Street (West)-147ua5h Manhattan_ 4th Street – 6th Avenue – NYPL Digital Collections-qbiu0z Manhattan_ 6th Avenue – 3rd Street – NYPL Digital Collections-1ebdgjp Manhattan _ 6th Avenue – 3rd Street (West)-147ua7u Manhattan_ 6th Avenue – 4th Street (West) – NYPL Digital Collections-19lstj8 Manhattan_ 6th Avenue – Washington Place – NYPL Digital Collections-2g667r8 Manhattan_ 6th Avenue – 4th Street (West) – NYPL Digital Collections-19lstjn Manhattan _ 6th Avenue – 3rd Street (West)-147ua8m Manhattan _ 6th Avenue – 3rd Street (West)-147ua8r Manhattan _ 6th Avenue – 4th Street-oykudz Manhattan_ 6th Avenue – 4th Street (West) – NYPL Digital Collections-19lstkchttp://www.franckbohbot.com/thisgameweplay#e-12http://jonlopezphotography.com/blog/2015/5/6/my-photo-exhibition-at-the-world-famous-west-4th-courthttps://www.flickr.com/photos/bryaniceman/6068894701https://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/west-4th-street-courts
1928
1928
1932
1933
1933
1933
1933
1935
1936
1937
1937
1938 (important!)
1939
1939
1939
1939
2014
2015
2004
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2004
2004
2004
Martindale, Wight Jr. Inside the Cage: A Season at West 4th Street’s Legendary Tournament. New York: Simon Spotlight Entertainment, 2005. Print.
“The city’s Department of Transportation purchased the land where the park is located in the 1920s when the city decided to extend the Sixth Avenue subway line south of 14th Street to the Holland Tunnel. Until 1935, when the Department of Transportation first gave the parks department a permit to run the playground, it was simply the land over the Independent line’s new West 4th Street Station.”
“According to Kenny (no detailed park records exist), basketball entered in a small way when a single backboard and basket were put up in the mid-1950s. Then in the late 1950s, the parks department erected two permanent bakets and laid down a crude, gritty, asphalt surface. Since the court ran right up to the sidewalk on Sixth Avenue, a twenty-foot fence had to be constructed. The Cage was born.”
“David Dinkins was the only mayor to visit the park, and he did so only once. Until recently the parks department’s official records gave the site no name other than “playground,” but in 1996 it was finally recognized for what it is: ‘West 4th Street Courts.'”
Luckily, I spoke to one of Kenny Graham’s best friends, Arnie Segarra in Florida, on Monday evening. I attach the rough, un-edited, original audio below. (The audio-quality of that phone call kept fading away. I could not even hear clearly what he said near the end. )
A few important messages he mentioned in the phone. First, he and Kenny know each other since 1967, and both of them will come back to New York City in late March to early April. Second, he will call Kenny and inform him about me and my situation. Third, he talked about his unique experience working with the mayor of NYC to improve the West 4th Street Courts. The example he offered was how he strove for the benches in the park. Fourth, he regarded the homeless as the biggest problem of the courts right now and had been looking for solutions. 
1939
1997
To be continued.