Lurkers 2 is quite possibly the most authentic New York video to come out in the past several years [excluding the N.Y. Revisited series]. While Vicious Cycle, the ABC video or the 5Boro video are all still dubbed as “New York videos,” no more than half of them are actually filmed on city streets. Not since the first few original Zoo York videos has it been common to see a video where over 90% of it is a daily documentation of the city’s people on their quest to be productive. That’s what you’re seeing here — except close to a decade down the line — the Astor sessions have been replaced by Union, the lines at Time-Life have been exchanged for a thirty-minute car ride to Staten Island and the flip tricks on the little banks are being done over the Flushing grate.

Unlike most other recent videos, which tend to focus on the same people who you have been seeing in front of the lens for years before, Lurkers is dominantly more unknown people if you’re not well versed with the other people who have been killing it these past few years. There are full length parts from Dharam Khalsa, Ted Barrow, Lou Sarowsky a.k,a Lurker Lou, Ian Reid and Charles Lamb – all of which contain solid, enjoyable skating. Technically speaking, there’s a Jason Dill “part,” but it only has about five actual tricks for it’s three-minute duration, and seems a bit preoccupied with Tim O’Connor skating around in a diaper and slappie 5050 lines, making it stand as the one detractor from the flow of the video.

So if you want to see what it’s really like to skate in New York, without having the actual stuff you want to see be intertwined with stuff from Barcelona and California, then pick this up by all means.

Year: 2005

Genre(s): Skateboarding

Duration: 37 Minutes

Cast: Dharam Khalsa, Ted Barrow, Jason Dill, Ian Reid, Lou Sarowsky, Charles Lamb & others

Filming Locations: New York City and a couple of other places.

More Info: Autumn sells it. Go to AutumnNYC.com

Trailer: N/A