“Eden told me the benches cost the city about $1,000 apiece. It takes a skateboarder to know that you don’t need a big, expensive park to make skaters happy.” Willy Staley (our friend who wrote Tyshawn’s NYT profile and the incredible post-lockdown deep dive on The Sopranos enduring through the generations) penned a full feature for The New York Times Magazine about how the Love Park granite wound up in Malmo, Sweden. The king is just a dude.
Somehow missed this a lil’ while back, but it seems like others did too: “timeout” is a three-minute New York montage by Jake Durham with appearances from Nelly Morville, Mathias Rostein, Matt Militano + others.
LurkNYC uploaded a “forgotten” installment of their “Mean Streets” series from 2021. The ride-on ledge behind the East River Park ampitheater and the the slatted Green Man manny pad — what a time to be alive.
“There was some random Baptist church that had brought their whole congregation to the skate park to do their Sunday service. There was a preacher at the top of a ramp with a megaphone giving a sermon with church members standing around listening, while other members were baptizing people in the back of a pickup truck.” Theories interviewed Ryan Tassi about the skate scene in Kentucky, on the occasion of Home Skateshop’s new Louisville-scene video, High Street, which is now live in full.
Orchard videographer Ted Purtell dropped a 15-minute Boston-scene iPhone edit.
No chance you haven’t seen the new Limo edit, right? They have a bunch of cool new shit over on their webstore, btw.
The Arizona skate team hit eleven New York skateparks in two days.
Mike Carroll is the latest guest on the Beyond Boards podcast.
Atiba gave the Slam City Skates blog a rundown of some of his favorite photos that he himself has shot, with a backstory for each.
Spot Updates 📍 — Tompkins has a 20-foot-long double-sided box now, leftover from our ledge jam with Adidas this past Saturday. Shout out Graver & Sons, shout out Pad Projects.
Loosies Corner 🚬 — Two minutes of Casper Brooker and Nik Stain loosies.
QS Sports Desk Play of the Week 🏀 — Stephon Castle’s dunk v.s. the Pacers. Where’s everyone watching the Knicks opener on Wednesday?
Quote of the Week 🗣
Inquistivie Gentleman: “You all good for call time tomorrow?”
Jefé: “Let’s just say… I’ve gone to sleep later and woken up earlier.”
Rest in Peace D’Angelo ❤️