Spots: Uptown Manhattan — Upper West Side

Spot: To the side of the playground at this Upper West Side / Harlem border park is a wavy, two-inch-wide-at-the-top, flat rail that sits about a foot-and-a-half in height off the ground. It is best approached in the backside for regular / frontside for goofy direction for maximum runway. If you choose to go the other way, you only have about twenty-five feet of runway before you reach the start of the rail. It also tends to get rusty, so it may need a quick touch-up of wax if you are trying to grind the whole thing. The park itself is set on good flatground and has a bunch of plastic-grated benches that grind and slide pretty well dispersed throughout.

Bust — ♦ / Rare: You will not get kicked out of here, but the gate to the park is closed after dark. It is about twelve feet tall, so it is not exactly the sort of thing you want to jump over for a rusty flatrail with no light.

Location: 109th Street, between Amsterdam and Broadway (but closer to Broadway.) Take the 1 train to 110th Street–Cathedral Parkway, skate south for one block, make a left on 109th, and it is about a fifth of the way into the block, on the south side.

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