East River Park south of Delancey opened on Friday. This means that the bridge that once lead to Alligator Ledge is back, although — brace yourself for bad news — it will not feature an Alligator Ledge. It does, however, include some suburban parking lot manny pads.
📅 1) Naquan & crew crew are hosting a skate jam with Thrasher at the Red Hook Skatepark tomorrow (9/9) @ 3 P.M. Flyer here. 2) Asics will be premiering their new video by Jacob Harris, A Guided Tour, at Palace Bar in Greenpoint this Thursday @ 8 PM. 21+. Flyer here.
“Will Steve Rodriguez and Gotham Park ultimately need to petition city hall to install a higher-yet rail or add several kinks? Does Antonio Durao’s membership in the rarified club of street handrail switch backside noseblunters put him on track to join the yet-more exclusive cadre of street handrail switch kickflip backside noseblunters?” …yeah, um, about that. Boil the Ocean wrote about how good the skateboarding going down at the Banks 2.0 is.
GQ posted their Tyshawn Jones profile online. Even having been around for that time, completely forgot that Rob Campbell was the first person to flow TJ boards with New Breed. Salute 🫡 (As is always the disclaimer: if you can hop a fence to skate a ledge, you should know how to hop a paywall, buddy.)
On the off chance that our literary masterpiece of a Dime Glory Challenge recap wasn’t enough for you, Slam City Skates and Monster Children filed good dispatches last week as well.
Mark Suciu talks Gabbers, Javier Sarmiento (“first try, eh?”), P.J. Ladd’s éS Accels, and Jason Dill for an interview with Slam City Skates’ “Visuals” series.
“However, what makes Tønnesen ascend into the realm of a select few is the sense of completion. He skateboards as if he’s beaten the game and is on New Game+.” Simple Magic wrote about Gustav’s new part.
Cambryan Sedlick is the latest spender on Skate Jawn‘s “$100 £100 Chill” series.
Pocket got a behind-the-scenes look at the workings of Swedish brand, Poetic Collective.
Jeremy Elkin is the latest guest on the Beyond Boards podcast + Blondey McCoy takes a cab from Rome to Milan on The Bunt + Brian Anderson is the latest guest on Living Proof.
“Unless it’s a new pro for a company, we sell boards that have been on the wall for 6 months as much as we sell the ones we have just pulled out of the box.” Jenkem tests out a hypothesis: do shop board sales rise amidst rising prices on name-brand boards?
No chance you missed this, right? Limosine’s two-minute edit for their Nike SB collab.
The “Ugliest Buildings In America” are actually pretty dope.
Loosies Corner 🚬 — Some Diego Todd odds ‘n endz + some Kader odds ‘n endz (including a good bit of New York stuff) + some Zach Saraceno odds ‘n endz + one minute of Brian Wenning switch tre’s.
Quote of the Week 🗣 “Sheckler’s a weapon!” – Ethan Pews
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Big game from Antoine Deslauriers