Perhaps the most frequent gripe about this website in the past two years has been the out-of-dated-ness of the spots section. I have gotten endless e-mails in the past year about Javitz, and a few other, less heartbreaking spot demises, so the advent of an all encompassing content management system will make spot updates in the future a million times easier.

With that being said, this is in fact New York, where the conception of what a “spot” actually is gets more absurd by the day as everyone finds more and more ways to channel their BFAs from Pratt and SVA into “creative” spots. In light of that, there have been significant omissions in terms of spots that were literally never skated (some of them I haven’t even heard mentioned since 2004), and some extensive additions. Namely, the additions are just filling in the gaps throughout Queens and Brooklyn with spots that Flipmode helped make popular over the years. There are no surprises in Manhattan, and no, the Bronx will never be in the spots section. (I know like six spots in Queens, what the hell makes anyone think we go anywhere in the Bronx besides the Courthouse?)

Otherwise, some write-ups have been revised, some pictures updated, and Javitz, MLK, and a few other now-defunct spots that were dear to all of our hearts have been left in the listing as a memento of greater days (but yeah, it does say that you cannot skate there anymore.)

The Quarter Snacks Spots Section — 2010