Spots: Brooklyn — Downtown & Fort Greene

Spot: As one of the more popular New York City gaps in terms of video coverage, this place embodies the sort of relativity that comes from expecting a spot to be a certain way when you only know it from watching videos. The gap itself is a lot larger than most fisheyes tend to indicate, spanning off a little over three-foot-high loading dock, over a ten-foot gap, onto a foot-high slant that perpendicularly leads into a garage door. The runways and landings are all smooth, so you should have no trouble. Watch Busenitz’s part in Roll Forever to get a grasp of the terrain here, because he more or less skates down the entire block to gather up speed for a backside 180 over it.

Bust — ♦ / Rare: Come here in the late afternoon or on a weekend and you will not get kicked out.

Location: Washington Avenue between Park Avenue and Flushing Avenue in Fort Greene / Clinton Hill. Take the G train to Clinton-Washington Avenue, skate east one block on Lafayette, make a left, and skate north on Washington for about six or seven blocks. The spot is right before the Brooklyn Naval Yard on Flushing Avenue.

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