Almost got caught off guard with December starting so close to Thanksgiving until NY Mag ran their “Reasons To Love New York” shit (which is what this series is pretty much based on.) Had to scramble the notes throughout the year and get to writin’.
Wow. Here we go…
Bound to happen, right? Photo via Twilz.
HD #tfreport via 📷 via Greg Navarro
“Editors are busy, and like I said, mired down in nonsense. It sucks, but it’s the state of the media.” Skate Bylines has a mega-feature about pitching articles, features, etc. to skate publications, featuring insights from many names who have been published on QS before. [Gonna use this space to apologize to anyone whose pitch we may have not got to in the past. It is never a personal thing, and it’s truly an honor getting a pitch from someone wanting to spend their time to contribute to QS each and every time.]
Boil the Ocean makes the case for all the inevitable S.O.T.Y. contenders.
“So it’s kind of funny that, you know, the quote unquote ‘underground’ doesn’t really exist in skateboarding anymore because everything’s so well seen. You can’t really even say we’re an ‘underground’ brand or anything like that. We’re just doing what we’ve always done.” Village Psychic interviewed the crew behind Traffic Skateboards, on the occasion of their new video.
If you’re skating around Lower Manhattan in the coming days, you may notice that the Small Banks — which are supposed to be restored into skateable condition — are open.
…except they’re not in skateable condition.
According to Steve R., who has been active in this whole saga since they first got closed in 2010, step one of the Small Banks restoration was for the contractors doing the main bridge-adjacent construction to bring them to 2010 condition. In the next phase, they will be re-closed, and different contractors will bring the space into the original, skateable condition that you see in old videos. No firm dates on that yet, but you know, the city, red tape, bureaucracy, etc.
But yeah, don’t panic. The three-phase restoration for the space is still in motion.
