Around halfway into the decade, an oft-discussed Quarter Snacks personality, one who has been an integral part of this website’s existence both in its current incarnation and various other forms of existence it had taken up in the past, by name of Danny Weiss, took up the hobby of photography. He recently released a wide array of photographs dating midway back into the long-forgotten 2000s, an era when the TF reigned supreme and youthful possibility seemed endless until the sun began to pierce through the darkness and the sweat started to dry into uncomfortable crust at Union Square.

He has a website called The Great Books Have Been Written, which I have deliberately neglected adding to the links section after all of these years, partially because of its absurd and overlong name that has been the a part of various explanations all rooting back to the way Danny wishes to present himself as an artist, but otherwise due to the often imbalanced relationship that I have had with Danny Weiss over the years. Perhaps I don’t exactly know how to wrap my mind around his standing as an artist. He’s a total sweetheart either way.

I have included several selections from his website to entice you into going there. The selections tend to lean in favor of content over composition because this is in fact a skateboarding, southern rap, New York lifestyle, etc. website, and they seem more relevant than mandatory Robert Frank homages and pictures of cops and snow.

So without further ado…

Perhaps the greatest omission of the decade 100 list was not discussing the massive influence Beer Bar had on those skateboarders who came of age in 2002, 2003, and 2004 in addition to the massive strides made in video production methods surround the treatment of green cans and marble drops in the cinema. 45th Street and Vanderbilt Avenue, 2004.

The Quartersnacks C.E.O., Benjamin Nazario at Houston Park, 2004.

Little Alex and renown rap producer, Michael Gigliotti. A little corner on East 9th Street and Avenue A, 2007.

Jake Johnson, before Animal Collective made a song about him. 66th Street and Boadway, 2005.

The infamous 14th Street bumps that defy spot-that-isn’t-really-a-spot logic. Lurker Lou hardflipping on East 14th Street and Avenue A, 2005.

Half-Irishman, Half-Angry Juanrican, Matthew Mooney, looked a lot more attuned to his hispanic roots before he started going to Lit with regularity later on in the decade, allowing his white side to dominate the nuances of his appearance and get-up. The King of Spring Street, at the beloved Tompkins Square Park, 2006.

1. Gino. 2. Gerwer. 3. Negative. “The Bobby Puleo Ledge,” Greenpoint, Brooklyn, 2005.

Graffiti writers have their legendary bench at 149th Street and Grand Concourse. Roctakon has the bench in front of Balthazar, my generation has the TF, 2005.

No words… Union Square, 2005.