Spots: Downtown Manhattan — Tribeca & West Village

Spot: Nothing much here except a rather high manual pad/ledge. The ledge is a loading dock which lies on a pretty desolate sidewalk. It’s about a foot-and-three-fourths in height, around twelve feet in length, and four feet wide on the top. The lip of the ledge is metal, although the top surface is solid concrete. Slide tricks are nearly impossible on it because small steel circles extend from the side of it that would hit your wheels if you tried a nose/tailslide. It does not get in the way of any grind tricks though.

Bust — ♦ / Rare: You will not get kicked out of here, but there was a point in time, around 2005-2006, when people in the apartment building across the street would scream at you and throw things down while you were trying your trick. The spot is no longer as popular as it once was (its height in popularity coincided with the release of Vicious Cycle in 2004), so it is not much of an issue anymore. Either that, or they moved away.

Location: Desbrosses Street and Greenwich Street in Tribeca. Take the 1 train to Canal Street, skate west on Canal until you hit Greenwich Street. Make a left on Greenwich and skate south for two blocks until you hit Desbrosses Street.

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