Spots: Uptown Manhattan — Upper West Side

Spot: The Beljuhly Banks are named after a true, underground legend of New York City skateboarding (his mother named him after his grandma and his aunt: Bella + Julie = Bejuhly) who was allegedly deported back to the Dominican Republic in the mid-2000s.

All throughout the plaza, there is a series of steep banks with benches in front of them, meaning that they require you clear the entire bank with a wallride or a grind on the top in order to avoid crashing into the plastic bench below and giving your shins an immeasurable amount of pain. The opposite ends, atop of the three stairs, have much lower, more-ledge like banks that can be skated in sequence. A few other, much steeper banks are also in the plaza, but they typically have benches in front of them as well, so you need to be even more careful in how you thread-the-needle with them to avoid crashing into a hunk of hard plastic on your way down.

Bust — ♦♦♦♦ / Very Likely: The plaza is a part of an apartment building, and the doorman / security’s window is on the opposite, 63rd Street end of the plaza. You can buy yourself some time by staying at the far end of the plaza near 62nd Street, but otherwise, your time here depends on sheer luck, because your session can last anywhere from one minute to one hour.

Location: 63rd Street in between Broadway and Central Park West, behind Lincoln Plaza Cinemas (so you can catch a Czech film about a grandma’s sexual awakening in Soviet society after you land your trick.) Take the 1 train to 66th Street–Lincoln Center. Skate south on Broadway for three blocks, and make a left on 63rd Street. The spot is in the middle of the block.

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