This is one of the most perfectly constructed spots for skating in all of Midtown, and fortunately enough, you can hardly ever get a chance to skate here. Running alongside the sidewalk is a bank which starts up at maybe one-foot on an ascension and gradually grows to be about four feet of an embankment from the ground. Atop of the plaza is the stand-out obstacle of the spot: a six foot high, nine-foot wide, absolutely flawless wedge-styled skatepark bank, composed completely out of smooth bricks with a brick ledge one foot above the top edge of the bank for stall tricks.

The only way you get tries here is by running up to the bank immediately and trying tricks. A giant window of an apartment faces the banks, and a security guard stares directly at them. So chances are, you're not going to get more than five tries. Typically, he's going to go on a speaker system and tell you that you have to leave, and he doesn't get out of his seat. So you can buy yourself more time if you ignore him and wait for him to come outside.

48th Street and 3rd Avenue. Take the E, V or 6 to Lexington Avenue-53rd Street, skate east one block to Third Avenue, and south five blocks until 48th.