Spots: New Jersey — Newark
Spot: If this was in a regular park, this would probably be one of the most popular skate spots in the New York area. The stars weren’t aligned for us, and it’s at a courthouse, so you need to take your chances as they come. Outside the building is a row of five polished concrete benches, which can be moved with 2-3 people for better positioning, on the most flawless stone ground you could find. In front of the building, is an ideal five step that could be used for lines leading to the benches.
Bust — ♦♦♦♦ / Very Likely: A weekend only spot, but even then, depending which guards are on duty, you may get kicked out in five or ten minutes. This place used to be a desert throughout the mid-2000s, and you could skate all day on Saturdays and Sundays, but they really beefed up security over the past several years. There’s footage from here, so people have been known to get lucky.
Location: Mulberry Street and Walnut Street in Downtown Newark. 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 one block until you hit Mulberry. Make a left on Mulberry, and skate south for five or six blocks, past the Prudential Center and the Post Office, and it will be on your right.
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