Spots: Downtown Manhattan — Financial District

Spot: Coenties Park is one of the few Water Street spots that is not an immediate bust, so you have a fairly decent chance at skating here on a weekday or weekend afternoon without having to rush yourself. Several parts of it are knobbed, but what remains liberated is a long sidewalk  ledge that is frontside for regular / backside for goofy. It runs about twenty feet and ends slightly higher than it begins. There is also another curved ledge at a mildly awkward angle, but still skateable once you figure a proper way to approach it. The entire plaza is centered around a two up, three down, that is usable as a manual pad or a platform to set trashcans off at the end.

Bust — ♦♦♦ / Half-and-half: Tenants from the nearby buildings may occasionally complain, and the red coat downtown-wide security company could come and tell you to leave, but otherwise, the buildings do not have their own security guards that watch over the property, so you will inevitably get bored of the spot before you get kicked out.

Location: Coenties Slip and Water Street, at the S&P Building. Take the R or W to Whitehall Street, and skate north on Water Street for three blocks. The spot is on the west side of the street, across from the Veteran’s Memorial / S&P building.

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