Essex County Community College

Spots: New Jersey — Newark

Spot: Around this campus is an infinite amount of stairs, mostly on the bigger side of things. There are plenty of consecutive tens, some nines, eights, and sevens. All of the sets are made out of cement, with decent sidewalk runways and landings. The rails that accompany them are kinked, and not really skateable unless you’re looking to a try a trick over them. At the front of the campus is a mulch gap with a few low, steep, and rough mini-hubba ledges running down them. People have managed to 5050 and noseslide down them a few times, but they are otherwise too steep for most other tricks.

At the back, along Martin Luther King Boulevard, are two sets of small brick wedge-style banks. These are unfortunately closer to the campus police parking lot, and way more likely to result in you getting kicked out.

Bust — ♦♦♦ / Half-and-half: You can usually skate the front portion all you want on weekends and late at night. If you try to skate the banks, regardless of the time, you have anywhere from two minutes to a half hour before campus police spots you and tells you to leave.

Location: Market Street and University Avenue in University Heights. Take the A, C, E, 2 or 3 train to World Trade Center–Chambers Street. Transfer onto a Newark bound PATH train and take it to Newark (last stop, 25 minute ride of Manhattan.) Walk outside of Newark Penn Station, and take Market Street west for about eight blocks up the hill. You will eventually see the college on your right side.

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