Sports Are Fleeting, Hell Rides Are Eternal

Jake Keenan was the victim of a horrific act of violence on July 4th, and was hospitalized for the injuries he sustained as a result. If you have the means, please donate to Jake’s family’s GoFundMe to assist with medical costs. Anything helps ❤️

We are hosting a wallride jam with Adidas at Blue Park tomorrow, Tuesday, July 21 @ 5 P.M. until sundown. Cash for tricks 💰 A handful of Adi riders. Same vibe as the long ledge jam, but yaknow …on a wall. Inspired by the long-knobbed Graham & Grand spot a few blocks away.

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R.I.P. to V.2 of the W. 109th Street Yellow Rail. It had a good life. If those bases got reappropriated to a straight flatbar, that is a fitting end to its storied life.

Late Nite Stars Makes A Tompkins Obstacle & A New Video

What is skateboarding but a long-winded way to worship architectural banalities?

Among this worship, the highest exaltation might be recreating a banality that you found on the other side of the planet in your own backyard. The Late Nite Stars crew was so enamored with this — um, mellow bank with parallel round rails fixed into it — that the handful of clips on it in their Asia tour video for Asics was not enough. Assuming the original spot was made in effort to knob the bank itself, it’s pretty funny that their skatestopping efforts yielded a spot so unique that it is being reproduced in New York. Now everyone can feel the bliss LNS felt under that Tokyo bridge, because they’re dropping it off at Tompkins later today once the rain dries up.

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