Nugget under the BQE – Photos by Zach Malfa-Kowalski

Yesterday morning’s rain helped cool the city down a much needed fifteen degrees, but unfortunately lingered around intermittently for the remainder of the day. By the time the ground dried up, and the coffee drinkers were two or three cups deep into the routine, it was already late-afternoon.

The initial plan was to hit the Fish Gap, the Fort Greene monument, and an ensemble of cutty little nooks and crannies you could find cruising around Dumbo with a discerning eye, but the weather didn’t really look upon this plan with an equal sense of enthusiasm, making the Fish Gap live up to its name as the drizzle helped coat every needed surface for skateboarding with a glossy layer of fish guts and water. That pizza place across the street is pretty much the only good part about ever having to go there with someone, and a much-needed reward if you have to sit there and endure the smell for an excess of five minutes. So the mission got tweaked a bit to focus on food.

Below is a clip of our refuge at the Fat Kid Spot / The Dill Spot under the BQE, just off Tillary. It was the only real skating that managed to get done, given that whenever the ground looked close to seventy-five percent dry, the rain would start back up again. Luckily it wasn’t heavy enough to drench the spot, and the place still remains to be the only good place to skate in New York amidst a rain shower, neglecting the fact that with the recent demise of the Chinatown Ledges and the Brooklyn Banks, it can safely lay claim to the title of being the dirtiest spot in the city.

There’s a new crew of nine-year-old derelicts from the projects over there that will claim you’re “on their territory” too. Their crew’s name is Crazy Rocks. Or something like that.

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