16th street park
bayonne
The center of the park is a rectangle of three-foot-wide concrete ledges broken up by various three-foot-long gaps in a consecutive set-up all throughout. Some of them are waxed along the edges, so it is possible to do gap to slide tricks, but unfortunately not grinds. The surface up top is smooth enough for your wheels, but a bit unfriendly to your trucks, tail and skin, if you just so happen to fall. On the right side of the spot, the lower platform gives way to a two-foot-high, thirty-foot long manual pad that you could either use to drop off on either high or low end of the platform. Otherwise, there's a couple of metal and plastic benches in the basketball court above the park.

You will usually not have any trouble skating here, but during the summertime, parks department people are known to patrol the area and kick you out before 5 P.M.

The end of 16th Street in Bayonne, NJ. You could take the Hudson-Bergen Light Rail to 22nd Street and skate south to 16th Street, which you would have to take all the way down to its end at New York Bay. Other than that, a car is the only other practical means of getting here.

       



eXTReMe Tracker