Based off what I can gather from this thread on Official and this Gothamist report from a month ago, the fountain surrounding the globe at Flushing is not actually being “re-modeled” and made unskateable. It’s all speculation, but the problems they seem to be addressing by fencing off the whole area appear to be largely technical with the pipe system and the poorly maintained nature of the space inside the cube itself (you know, grass, weeds, that kind of stuff.)

Nothing I have read really indicates that there will be a full-scale remodeling of the area on a cosmetic level (however, it is fully imaginable that some retard from the parks department would tell that to a bunch of skaters just to piss them off or think they would never come back), thus resulting in the demise of the entire border of the fountain. The whole situation reminds me of how back in 2004, the city began doing work on the infrastructure of the B.K. bridge in addition to some re-modeling (which of course, resulted in the demise of the little banks among other things, but still, about 70% of the spot was left in tact) and everyone began to think the whole spot was being torn apart.

From what it looks like, its a maintenance measure. The worst case scenario for us appears to be them leaving the fountain filled up for prolonged periods during the summer months, and them sandblasting the ledges like they did in 2003 or 2004. But even then, the amount of energy and water needed to keep that thing full, in addition to the added facet of them needing people there to patrol the fountain from turning into a Mexican swimming pool would probably render the fully-filled 24/7 scenario not-too-likely.

As of now, its fenced off. I haven’t been to Flushing in two years, but the aforementioned thread on Official is probably the best place to go for up-to-date status reports on what’s going on over there. As of now, it does not seem like the spot is lost.