The covering was pulled off the sign on the pole, and there it was. The crowd at the corner of Rockaway Boulevard and 147th Street in South Jamaica gazed up at the eternal tribute to a former standout Knicks forward.
The new green Queens street sign with the white lettering, just below the 147th Street sign, shared a memory in three words: “Anthony Mason Way.” It’s the block that stretches from 147th to 123rd Avenue, the block that includes the modest house where he and his mom, Mary, used to live for part of his teens and early 20s.