Photo via Graver
Anyone too stubborn to accept the cyclical nature of human history should be aware of the fact that the Banks is maybe the most popular spot in the city again, and twenty of us drove out to Staten Island to skate the ABC Ledges last week.
Time warp innit ~ June 22, 2010 QS post from the day the Banks first got fenced off.
See also: Children skating the three block set-up at Columbia University, and placing trash cans after it in the latest installment of LurkNYC’s “New York Times” series. Shout out to Ja$onwear, Yellow Rail, Dan’s Skate Page and the Metrospective forum.
There’s not enough John Choi footage in it, but Cyrus threw together a twelve minute iPhone edit full of B-sides from New York and L.A.
Jahmal Williams footage and probably the last clips you’ll ever see of the CBS keyhole ledge in “Initiation,” a two-minute clip from Theories to kick off the spring.
Village Psychic follows up on the Stefan Janoski episode of The Bunt to consider the “Hovercraft” / a over tailslide (?) / booger tailslide (?), a trick that would be best left to the spirit of Darrell Stanton.
A bunch of classic NJ spots in Rob Snyder and Jeff Starch’s new part for Municipal.
Cafe Creme rounded up a handful of Keith Hufnagel cameos and mini parts from montages and 411s in the nineties, and put them into one convenient clip.
“Freed of past eras’ smallmindedness that shackled hive-minded bros to goofy-boy kits in the early 1990s or carcass hucking in the early 2000s, a supposed ‘anything goes’ renaissance over the past decade has freed pros and bros alike to pursue moves from retroactivated no-complies to multisyllabic ledge combos and horse pools, wearing fits that run from short shorts to graphical sweatpant products to Tuscan leather. Just as long as you did it on a board that was at least eight inches wide.”
Damn, T.F. North is the dubstep capital of New York skateboarding. Respect.
Drake wearing a TWS tee was an inside job (of the Adobe variety.)
QS Sports Desk Play of the Week: Jamal Crawford will probably be in the NBA in 2109 when the earth is completely submerged in water. P.S. Mask on, fuck it, mask off.
Quote of the Week: “This place is like the south.” — Kevin Tierney re: Staten Island
“Jamal Crawford will probably be in the NBA in 2109″…and with a bit of luck, he’ll make it next year :)
Rudy Gobert Defensive Player of the Year please (I wish..)
2109 wasn’t a typo.
Are the Banks back now? Can you skate there?
they got fenced back up supposedly
@lurknyc keep up the heat — Even our security guards got swag!
Passing through the small hole in the fence to enter the Banks is like passing through the closet vortex to enter the land of Narnia.