This is for the surrounding areas of the Chelsea Piers athletic complex, not the skatepark at Chelsea Piers. (Quarter Snacks does not list skateparks.)

There is a bunch of two-and-a-half foot high square flatrails running alongside a pathway right before you cross the street into Chelsea Piers. Some of them have ends, and they all run on either a slight slope down or up depending on which side you approach it from. There are bricks running parallel to the edge of the curb where the rails sit on, but they do not really deter you from skating them. There is also a dogpark with a bunch of weird thing to skate, like a giant concrete hump with rocks and branches sticking out of it. Naturally you would have to come here late at night when no people are in the park with their dogs and be very cautious you do not step in doodoo. Alongside the parking complex, there are several concrete ledges that are most easily skateable as a ledge-to-ledge gap, either for flip tricks or gap-to-grind/slide tricks. The ledges are only about a foot-and-a-half high and the distance between the two ledge sis only three-and-a-half feet. Inside the parking lots there are a bunch of well-painted metal ledges that are slightly over a foot in height.

This spot is definitely better if you go later at night, but s otherwise dependent upon luck. You can skate the flatrails hassle free, and probably will not get kicked out of the dog park if you go when there is nobody there. The parking lot security is all dependent on whether or not they actually feel like kicking you out, which is normally a fifty/fifty gamble.

23rd Street and the Westside Highway. Take the A, C or E to 23rd Street and skate west until you reach the Westside Highway.