The Events That Defined New York City Skateboarding in 2010: 25-21

December 1st, 2010 | 1:42 pm | Features & Interviews | 31 Comments

These are probably going to run on a once a week basis for the rest of the month. The month is still young, and we are only 11/12ths through the year, so chances for history to be made are still there! E-mail quartersnacks [at] gmail.com if you feel there is something that we may fail to acknowledge, and we will have the event screened before the Board of Trustees.

25. The MTA Discontinues V Train Service
The V train was the MTA’s most self-aware line, in that it proudly wore the title of being the party train. It took you as far as you realistically needed to go, and did not overcompensate for that fact by pretending its duty to the public was anything greater than plopping them off two blocks from the Fish, and five blocks from Lit. It was the train of broken dreams, a route that once seemed endless, but was unexpectedly cut short when an assortment of alcoholic beverages and chances at STDs were shoved in front of it. The V train was special because it was a microcosm for the glimmering road of stardom maligned by alcohol that is New York skateboarding.

Quartersnacks celebrates the LAST decade: Volume 11

January 1st, 2010 | 6:05 am | Features & Interviews | 10 Comments

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Happy New Year.

To know where you’re going, you have to know where you have been, so before you look any further, if you have catching up to do, take the time to do it now…

Volume 1: 100-91
Volume 2: 90-81
Volume 3: 80-71
Volume 4: 70-61
Volume 5: 60-51
Volume 6: 50-41
Volume 7: 40-31
Volume 8: 30-21
Volume 9: 20-11
Volume 10: 10-2

You probably knew it all along, but here it is, the single, most important event to occur in New York City skateboarding from January 1, 2000 to December 31, 2009…

Quartersnacks Celebrates the Decade: Volume 10

December 31st, 2009 | 4:36 am | Features & Interviews | 15 Comments

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Hopefully you didn’t expect the most important event in New York City skateboarding history of the past ten years to be lumped in with everything else. All but one…

Quartersnacks Celebrates the Decade: Volume 9

December 30th, 2009 | 12:35 pm | Features & Interviews | 22 Comments

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It has been a long trip, but we are finally down to the top twenty…

Quartersnacks Celebrates the Decade: Volume 8

December 29th, 2009 | 5:38 pm | Features & Interviews | 9 Comments

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A great way to forfeit what remaining morsel of credibility your music publication had left is to state that Kanye West somehow had one of the best rap albums of the past decade. Whatever though, let’s continue…