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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.

On The B.Q.E. Blasting Bach

Hardbody’s OD video is premiering at Village East Cinemas (E. 12th Street & 2nd Avenue) this Wednesday, July 31. Doors @ 7:45 P.M. No teaser, but you should watch Antonio’s Jefé mixtape from the Museum to get hyped.

QS is hosting a premiere of Pop Trading Company’s first-ever full-length video at The Palace Bar in Greenpoint this Thursday, August 1st @ 8:30 P.M. Flyer here. Teaser here. 21+.

“What kind of person looks at a dusty construction site, shoved under a bridge and controlled by a seemingly impregnable bureaucracy, and thinks: This is a perfect space for a park?” Skaters, for one. Glad she’s onboard, though was reading this Times profile of the woman trying to turn the space under the Brooklyn Bridge (Manhattan side) into a giant park and wondering — how has it taken this long to mention skaters? Because, you know. (They do, halfway in.)

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