Update: 05/31/06: The two ascending ledges alongside the handicap ramps are no longer skateable because tall iron fences have been built on top of them.

This review refers to the entire region around the apartments, meaning the "Up Ledges," "Chinatown Manual Pad," etc. have all been combined into one spot for the sake of convenience.

Within the apartments, you'll find one of the few good manual pads downtown Manhattan has to offer. It's a little over a foot high, fully marble, about four feet wide, and thirty feet long. The runway for it is long, but on pretty choppy ground; thus it's not the best place for flatground, although it is acceptable for gathering speed for a manual trick.

A block and a half west, you'll find "the Up Ledges." There are two ledges which ascend alongside a handicap ramp and ultimately become flat. The first one starts at about an inch in height, rises to be a foot, and extends as a flat ledge over about four feet. The second one rises to be about a foot and a half, and also extends four feet lying flat until its end. The higher one is typically the one that is waxed better.

Almost directly across from Brooklyn Banks, is the seven set. It is in front of a building entrance, so be cautious of people walking in and out. The runway is smooth sidewalk, although there is a minor curve-in you have to do about twelve feet before the actual steps. The landing is straight and also the same exact concrete sidewalk material.

You'll never get kicked out, but there are usually little kids playing here, hoodrats walking around and crackheads leaning on the benches during the day. It's almost impossible to avoid any of them so just try your luck, because this spot has absolutely no light at nighttime.

The Manual Pad is on Catherine Street, a block above South Street. The rest of the stuff is scurried about throughout the complex so its not possible to give a street address for it. Take the F or V to East Broadway, skate south until you reach Catherine Street, make a left and skate down about a block before south street. The park with the manual pad is on your right.