Jake Johnson – Polejam at Houston Park in the Chapman years

In light of the fact that certain people who look at this site can’t read, and insist on restating that, “Quartersnacks doesn’t known what real photography is,” even though the corresponding post was clearly denoted with a statement specifying we don’t know what good photography is, I decided to go for a safety zone that has existed ever since the early days of any member of western civilization’s educational journey…

If it’s French, it’s art.

These photos were taken by Jason Lecras, a Frenchman devoid of a beret collection and a categorical hierarchy of cheese preferences, but a great artist in his own right. Even if these photos were taken with the lens cap on, he’s French so clearly there’s something artistic about it. I mean, what other country can make an hour-and-a-half long movie about sitting in traffic?

Dice game at Le Basket. French photography meets French-named delis run by Koreans. What next, right?

Brendan Leddy – Switch Frontside 180 down the Martin Luther Jing Jr. High School 13-stair on Amsterdam Avenue.

Eby Ghafarian – Backside 5-0 on a far-reaching definition of a “bank” right by Union Square.

Jake Johnson – Wallride in Spring Street Park in an era when flip phones reigned supreme.

Josh Velez – Frontside smith grind at the non-gap part of the Little People Gap.

Marquez – Back lip at the concreted-over Chinatown Banks on the Bowery.

Marquez – Switch crook at the State Building.

Josh Velez – Frontside crooked grind on a skatestopped-but-kinda-not-due-to-a-wooden-plank-over-the-bars cellar door spot in Tribeca.

The last remaining classic New York skate spot.