The morning after • 📷 Photo via @_newthings
Catalytic converter thefts are down, shark sightings in Rockaway are up, word is that the watermelon slush spot across from Labor is turning into a wraparound French restaurant 😒, and Antonio is switch flipping the Banks rail for the timeline — that’s Hollywood New York babyyyyyyyyy!
“Sometimes I go overboard and end up with too many spots to choose from. Last summer, I had so many spots saved that I got overwhelmed. It was stressing me out trying to figure out which one to focus on.” Nik Stain gave a #longform interview (first ever?) to Jared Sherbert for Thrasher on account of the new Hockey video.
“Street are popping. Somebody is playing the trumpet. This is Queens.” Elisa Martini skates Flushing and supports her local in the latest installment of Skate Jawn‘s “$100 Chill” feature. Someone’s really gotta hit Queens Night Market for one of these.
“Outer Loop” is a six-minute DMV scene edit by Eddie Gutierrez. Nollie heel down the side of a mountain is crazy 🏔
Forever the best Go Skate Day edits every year, even for those of us who don’t really watch Go Skate Day edits: Sabotage’s 2025 GSD video. No events, no sponsors, no tie-ins. Just going skating in Center City Philadelphia and coming back with seven minutes worth of clips.
Tompkins x Rockaway in the heat wave via Kei Tsuruta for Lily Pad issue six. Smith grind over the longboard shooting out was hectic.
Shaquille Waite and friends at the Brooklyn Banks, also probably during a heat wave.
“The reality of why most pitches go unanswered is probably because it’s not going to work but sending that communication slipped.” Skate Bylines spoke to the editors of Skate Jawn, Dolores, Free + Mess in part two of their feature about pitching ideas to skate publications. Apologies to anyone with a pitch we’ve mistakenly left on read before!
Worth having a look at the geometry of that 5050 to gap at Grand Army Plaza next time you’re in midtown. Walker Ryan dropped a half Euro / half New York part on Thrasher last week.
2000s Alien Workshop x Habitat mastermind Joe Castrucci is the latest guest on the Beyond Boards podcast. Photosynthesis turns 25 next month!
#TBT: Monster Children reshared their 2012 profile of Keith Hufnagel, written by Dave Carnie. “Skateboarders, for the most part, are not peacocks.” Ummmmmm, yeah, about that…
ICYMI: Tim Savage dropped his Boston-scene video, Free Game, which made up like half of the Top 10 last week. You can be someone’s favorite skater, but they still gotta kick you out.
Spot Updates 📍 — 1) Huge day for the ride-on community, because the barrier is gone at the Shell Ledge. 2) This is likely months-late, but the Five Then Three on E. 26th Street is blocked off by scaffolding. Doesn’t look like they are modifying the plaza in any way, though they did make an already good place to pee even better ;)
Quote of the Week 🗣 “What’s j’adore?” — Antonio Durao
The wrap around French restaurant will contain a breach allowing travel between the kitchen and a Marc Jacobs dressing room in the west village.