Gauchos Gym

Specialties

Gauchos Gym is the home of The New York Gauchos Basketball Program. The Gauchos belong to the Amateur Athletic Union (AAU) and send our teams of skilled athletes to basketball tournaments across the country. We host camps, clinics, and tournaments. Our gym is available to the public to help them train and work on their basketball game for a small daily fee. The Gauchos are proud of our beautiful wood court that was donated by Madison Square Garden. Players come from all over to play on our court and use our facilities which are also fully air conditioned. Gauchos Gym is also available to rent out for businesses as a space for a function of any kind. For more information call us at 718−665−6952

History

Established in 1967.

Teamwork Foundation, Inc. is a non-​profit organization which manages the basketball program known as the «New York Gauchos», founded 44 years ago as an adjunct of the Westside YMCA by Louis d’ Almeida, an advertising executive who had come as a young man from Argentina to seek education in the United States. He later found that education at Yale University.

Teamwork Foundation, Inc. at first glance, might seem to be a strange appellation to give a program concerned with helping a segment of inner city children for whom so many programs have failed. Yet that name is at the very heart of a program that has become unique in its success during its more then 40 years of life.