By the time he turned 13, Brown had grown to be 6-foot-1 and 145 pounds. Brown’s mother, Roberta, saw his athletic ability and wanted him to have access to more educational resources at Wakefield. So Brown woke up at the crack of dawn to get on a bus to the suburbs. Papile set him up in a small basement apartment below a popular New York Pizza store in a building he owned in Roxbury. “Bruce could run up the stairs and they would hook him up with pizza,” he said.

Source: New York Times May 28, 2021 03:56 UTC