Vans Skate Space 198 Archives

Fifth (!) Annual QS Thaw Out Recap

Daily News April 13th, 2026 · 4:45 pm

It has somehow been half a decade since we started doing these gatherings at the indoor Vans park in Bushwick to celebrate the end of the winter.

It originally began as a post-pandemic excuse to gather some friends, and quickly became a demarcation point for the transition into spring amongst our friends — mainly because it either poured, was windy as fuck, or generally brick out any time we tried to invite people out to celebrate the end of having to wear a puffer every day.

So that became part of it.

This year, it didn’t do any of those things, and was generally mild outside. With rumors swirling about what may happen to the space in the not-so-distant future, if this is the last one we are able to do here, at least the weather gods looked down on us fondly — and more importantly — that the Halal Guys continue to be absolute legends.

Thanks to Vans, Chris, Cass, Cooper, Patrick and everyone for having us.

Time For The Real Sports

Daily News March 23rd, 2026 · 12:00 am · 3

There comes a time in every skate tank’s life where it ceases to merely get you TO the spot, and it …becomes the spot. The rubicon has been crossed.

Dime x Quartersnacks available now ⬅️

“Chris Joslin never did no shit like this.” Jamal Smith is back in front of the camera, mic’d up at the skatepark …in the snow. Can’t wait for episode two.

“Return of the Genius” is a new eight-minute edit by Carlo Campos of the Genius crew. It is a beautiful inferno of absolutely insane manny combos, all filmed in New York. Anyone confused by the madness within should find solace in the ancient proverb: the chaos of the youth’s manual tricks is reflective of the world they have inherited from their elders. (Should’ve been it’s own post, but last week was a hectic backend one at the office 😵‍💫)

Alexis Lacroix having an allotment of ohhhhh yeaaaaahhhh’s in Dime videos is very funny.

Fourth Annual QS Thaw Out Recap

Daily News April 15th, 2025 · 3:01 pm · 2

Jersey Dave was like, “Do you guys wanna do an obstacle this year?”

“Nah” — seeing as how the design-by-committee Pool Coping Philly Step™ from last year that people were soooo excited for didn’t live up to everyone’s imaginations. (We got into it at entry #14 in 2024’s Year-in-Review.)

“…wait!” Instead of building what other people want, we’re going to build what we want! And what do we want in an age of tension, frustration, and uncertainty?

A foot-high “hubba” ledge down a mellow slope, with the satisfactory friction of diamond-plate as you make your way down it with any respective dream trick that would prove too frightening for an actual hubba ledge, or even one at a skatepark.

Lucky for us, the prototype already exists on 114th and Morningside, except out of the last 100 years, it has been under scaffolding for probably all but a cumulative four months. So we enlisted the brilliant mind of Jerry Mraz to measure it, and replicate it in fine-tuned detail.

It’ll remain at the Vans park for a tiny bit longer, but we’re currently in talks to restructure it into a plain ol’ diamond-plate box to drop at Tompkins or Blue. Hopefully it gets skated more than the Pool Coping Philly Step™.

#spotcheck

Spot Check April 12th, 2025 · 4:14 pm

Zipper Ledge replica lives on at Vans Skate Space 198, but it is there for a good time not a long time. Had to make a silly spot that’s fun for our serious times.

Be nice to Dave if you swing by. Thanks to Mr. Mraz for building it :)

On The Sunny Side Of The Street

Daily News February 24th, 2025 · 12:00 am · 1

Mark Suciu by 📷 Cole Giordano via the new issue of Closer Skateboarding, which has that incredible Evan Wasser cover dropping in on that red cube behind Zuccotti. FWIW, Zered said he only went halfway up for his drop-in, before anyone gets all precious about it ;)

Tyshawn was on The Breakfast Club for a half-hour-long interview. It is obviously for a radio station, so you’re getting some radio station ass questions about skateboarding, but he doesn’t do a ton of interviews, so there you go. New THPS game otw just casually thrown in there, too.

“It’s crazy you are doing tricks you’ve never done 30 years later.” Never know when these come out because none of their posts are dated, but No Comply Network has a lllllloooooong interview with Zered Bassett, apparently from a few weeks ago. They cover everything from first getting into skating on Cape Cod, right through life after Alltimers.