Fawk • 📷 via @kyotaumeki
Moving right along…
Previously: 25-16.
Tag: 5boro
Choose The Sword, And You Will Go To The Banks, Choose The Ball, And You Join Your Friends At The Beach
Mike Sass uploaded a raw reel from one of 2025’s best New York parts [or anywhere-parts, for that matter]: Neil Herrick 5Ball Re-Rack. Love when you can feel the intentionality in raw file editing v.s. it feeling like a footage dump. Best of all …they just decided to throw in an entire bonus part at the end. Some of that footy is way to good to be sitting at the last two minutes of an eighteen-minute timeline. [16:30 mark.]
Krooked returned to its Gnaughty and Gnar Gnar roots and got the lo-def camera out for “Weirdo 01,” a bro cam excursion to New York featuring the majority of the team (Bobby back at Three Up!), and a mini Andrew Wilson part at the end. Feels like between this and the NBA Youngboy video (lol), remodeled Zeigfeld is having a comeback year.
“Last week there was a feeling of some divine mission having been completed, with Anti-Hero bestowing professional status upon Nick Matthews.” Boil the Ocean wrote about Nick Matthews finally getting the pro nod in its latest.
Another Beautiful Day Spent Hanging Out Under The Brickell Bridge
No chance you haven’t seen 5Boro’s 5Ball video by Mike Sass yet, right? Parts from Jimmy McDonald, Andrew Singh, Justin Fabus, Keith Hardy, Chris Anderson and Neil Herrick. Next time you’re around Grand Central, take a close look at the spot from the ender.
Stephan Singh has a new, all-NYC homie edit. Park Avenue noseslide shove was fire.
Emile, Jamie Platt, David Stenstrom, Dylan Mills & Kiki Kakitani went on a Polar trip to Austin and Salt Lake City. SLC really has to be a team manager’s dream.
Which Celebrity Allegedly Got Bit in the Face Outside of Max Fish?
“Classic” • Photo via Nik Stain
Another addition to the “wish this was 4x as long”-pile: just under a minute of Kevin Bradley and Alice Coltrane, via Johnny Wilson.
“For this reason, any alternative headspace that can be conjured by a Palestinian, is a radical form of resistance.” Medium has a photo feature and article about the growing skate scene in Palestine.
The Poetic Collective video is online in full. Wtf is Poetic Collective? Funny you should ask…
Sanguine Paradise
→ Please sign the petition to show your support for keeping the asphalt at the Tompkins Square Park courts. This space is as sacred to skateboarding and the East Village as the Rucker or the West 4th Street courts are to basketball. It would be a massive loss to the youth and cultural fabric of the neighborhood if they were covered with synthetic turf. We are a few hundred shy of 25,000 (!!!) signatures, so please please please share the petition with your friends, and on your respective social channels.
After many years of captivity, the Zipper Ledge is finally free and dressed with a fresh, yellow paintjob, as first reported by @mini_spots. (Don’t ask for pin! That’s like asking where the Empire State Building is!) If only the park starts opening the gate at Yellow Rail, then the entire Morningside little kid skate scene circa 2003 will be in full revival.
Jesse Alba is the latest guest on The Bunt, and really happy that he no longer lives at 51 Eldert Street.
…aanndd Max Palmer is half the man he used to be in Jesse’s new #longform iPhone edit.
One of the hardest things about interviewing skateboarders is not asking the same ten things that the last few interviews they did asked. It’s special and rare when you get someone for their first one. Caleb Barnett did his first ever interview with the Slam City Skates blog.