Although thereís hardly a lack of ledges downtown, most of them suffer from a five-minute bust factor ‚ and this one just happens to give you an actual chance of skating, not just warming up and getting kicked out within a few tries. The entire front of this plaza is on smooth marble ground, and sprinkled throughout with these four-foot long, average-bench height ledges. The problem is that the sides are rigid, thus preventing any possibility of tail/noseslides, but otherwise every other trick is possible.

You have a better chance of skating here than most other downtown ledge spots (with obvious exceptions here and there..), but still, avoid the front of the building where the doorman is. As soon as he gets a complaint from people entering or leaving the building he is liable to tell you to leave.

State Street, right where the Westside Highway begins at the southern end of Manhattan. Take the 4, 5, 6 to Bowling Green and skate south for one block on State Street.