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Daily News June 23rd, 2025 · 12:00 am

#TRENDWATCH for the week: night skating, skateboarding’s version of day poker © Charles Rivard • 📷 Photo via Greg Navarro

Village Psychic has the web premiere of Kevin Barthold’s part in A 20 Of Regular, which covers every genre of New Jersey crust imaginable.

Some spots only last a day. Neil Herrick talks through three photos and a couple of trick battles he had from 5Boro’s 5Ball video with Skate Jawn.

“In the 80s in the New York, Halloween was a license for craziness. It was beyond egging cars. It was a lot of violence…” TWS spoke with O.G. Bruno Musso (if you have the Full Bleed book, that’s Musso on the cover) about the 80s and early 90s days of the Brooklyn Banks.

A Report From Inside The Meeting About the Brooklyn Borough Hall Park Redesign

Daily News May 19th, 2025 · 1:39 pm · 3

📝 Photos & Reporting Contributed by Greg Navarro

A few weeks back, we had a note about a proposal to redesign the public space surrounding Brooklyn Borough Hall. And last Thursday, DBP, a not-for-profit local development organization that oversees the downtown Brooklyn area, held an open-to-the-public meeting with two architecture design firms to present their vision for the area in 2030.

Since Borough Hall is no-doubt the most popular street spot in all of Brooklyn — and the plaza already had a skatestopping attempt via an AstroTruf and planter combo back in 2019 when Eric Adams was Brooklyn Borough President — it made sense that there were concerned skateboarders present among the Brooklyn residents and architecture students to see what they had in mind. Our correspondent Greg Navarro reported back from the meeting.

Twenty 25

Daily News January 6th, 2025 · 12:00 am · 1

It’s 2025 and this photo is a placeholder and/or reminder that time moves very fast • 📷 via Zach Baker, Summer 2019.

Let’s get through the remaining year-end stuff and not talk about it ever again: 1) Adjacency Bias dropped their top five 2024 videos from the Pacific Northwest skate scene. 2) Simple Magic assesses an array of very specific 2024 skateboarding predictions that were made a year ago, now that the year closed out. 3) Boil the Ocean’s #1 part of 2024 didn’t make the QS Readers Poll top 20, but it definitely should have.

Andrew Miami videographer Zoogie dropped a six-minute New Year’s edit featuring Sully Cardenas, Stafhon Boca, Coles Bailey, Elijah Odom and many more familiar faces. Gabe’s noseslide at the Fifth Avenue Apple Store might legit be the second or third clip anyone has ever got there on account of the security.

Snack After Snack After Snack After

Daily News December 11th, 2023 · 12:00 am · 1

“Leftover and lost footage, glitched tapes, steady shot on, broken mic, windshield lens, and other angles.” Paul Coots uploaded a twenty-minute, black-and-white raw reel of outtakes from The HIT Video, which dropped this time, two years ago. Heavy on the Max clips, obvs. Rumor has it that Coots is working on a sequel! 🤞

Transworld, which apparently has the rights to the 411VM archive (or something to that effect, idk), revived the video magazine’s “Spot Check” featurette for a modern version. The first installment is shot by Mike Sass and checks out Borough Hall, covering every corner from the micro curved ledge to the tall ‘n short handrails.

Lee Madden and the Orchard crew put together a 2013-2023 retrospective edit of Brian Reid’s footage on account of him joining the pro ranks ❤️

Greg Szudzik and Ben Patrick’s shared part in Dana Ross’ Purpose video is live. You can buy the video in full via Dana’s webstore.

And These Links From Snacks Not From YouTube

Daily News September 12th, 2022 · 12:00 am · 1

Photo by Greg Navarro 📷

Thanks to everyone who grabbed something off the webstore sale last week. Should be caught up on shipping by end of today 📦💨

The NPR Story on the A.V.E. bench spills a bit of the secret on how the bench got to Richmond, Virginia at the end, straight from…the Temple University police. Bravo to skateboarders, for always figuring it out. If you aren’t already aware, @ave_bench on Instagram has been tracking the world tour at every turn.