Spots: New Jersey — Assorted Hudson County

Spot: The center of the park is a rectangle of three-foot-wide concrete ledges broken up by various three-foot-long gaps in a consecutive set-up all throughout. Some of them are waxed along the edges, so it is possible to do gap to slide tricks, but unfortunately not grinds. The surface up top is smooth enough for your wheels, but is composed out of fairly rugged concrete, so its a bit unfriendly to your trucks, tail and skin if you just so happen to clip on the opposite end of the gap and fall. On the right side of the spot, the lower platform gives way to a two-foot-high, thirty-foot long manual pad that you could either use to drop off onto either high or low end of the platform. Otherwise, there are a couple of metal and plastic benches in the basketball court above the park.

Bust — ♦♦ / Occasional: There is an occasional parks department presence before 5 P.M. at the spot that may possibly tell you to leave. Insofar as you come here before 5 or on a weekend, you will not get kicked out. There are practically no lights at night, so don’t even bother coming after the sun sets. It is also the sort of place you do not want to skate in the dead of summer, as there is barely an shade since the spot is wide out in the open, and no near-by stores to get gallons of water to cool you off.

Location: 16th Street and Avenue A / Newark Bay in Bayonne, New Jersey.

If you’re traveling via public transportation, it is a whole process to get here… If you’re coming from Uptown or Queens, take the B, D, F, V, N, Q, R or W to 34th Street — Herald Square. If you’re coming from Downtown or Brooklyn, take the A, C, E, 2, or 3 to World Trade Center. Transfer onto a Hoboken PATH train. Take it to Hoboken (10 minute ride from both World Trade and 34th Street). Then transfer onto a Bayonne-bound Hudson-Bergen Lightrail (electric trolley) train and take it to 22nd Street (25 minute ride). It will drop you off at Avenue E and 22nd Street. Skate south on Avenue E, until you hit 16th Street. Make a right at 16th Street and skate west until you hit Avenue A, and see Newark Bay. The spot is inside the park at the bottom of the hill.

If you have a car, the spot is a fifteen minute drive on the Turnpike from the Holland Tunnel, or a 25-minute drive through Jersey City if you take local roads.

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