📷 Photos by Chris Mulhern, Zander Taketomo & Pat Heid
For some skaters, the sight of a sanctioned skate plaza at the Philadelphia Municipal Services building — one made out of Love Park, City Hall and old Muni materials — is surreal. For Pat Heid and his crew, it is a victory produced by years of advocacy, meetings, dead-ends, close-calls, and divine timing.
Philly’s new plaza opens on April 17, and here is the story of how it became a reality.
📝 Intro + Interview by Greg Navarro
📷 Photography by Greg Navarro, Thomas Goldman & Cooper Qua
Cooper Qua is from Albany, New York and is the youngest team rider on Quasi Skateboards. His debut video part for the company is in their latest video, Hard Reset. I sat down with Cooper at Tompkins to chat about the future of Quasi and to hear about his dream of becoming a pro skateboarder as a teenager from Upstate New York.
📷 Photo by Stafhon Boca
The best parts can just be wallies and cool manuals [and a fat nollie inward], just as the best parts can also be a minute long. The latest Five Faves is with a QS fave ;)
🔑 Words by Adam Abada
QS staff meateorologist Matthew Perez informs us that 18 inches of snow is coming to New York on Sunday. Sounds like a good time to crack a book. Here’s a review of the newest and biggest skateboard book I know of.
📹 Photo via @allanstoops
In the rollout to Ish’s “INERTIA” part from earlier this month, we got him on the line to run down some favorites for the first 2026 installment of Five Faves.
As usual, the request line is always open for anyone you want to see this year ;)
