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This is probably the biggest spot New York has outside of Battery Park if you want to count the whole thing so this review will have to be broken up into three sections...
Big Three Area
This is the central, and most skated part of the campus. There are a whole bunch of marble ledges and benches on choppy ground depending where you approach them. They are still very much skateable but you'll need to bring some wax in order to get them sliding and grinding well. The big three is around the size of your average five stair, and has an approach that is only about two feet wide, and probably fifth feet long. The ledges at the bottom are all waxed well, although a bit low by today's standards. Below is the fountain structure which acts almost like a quarter-pipe. You're going to have to figure out how to get to it on your own if you want to skate it. Otherwise, there's a six stair rail in front of the housing building that will probably get you kicked out very quickly, and a thirteen stair hubba ledge with a short runway that Pat Smith 5050ed in a Transworld photo some years back.
Brick Banks Area
Here are three sets of banks, broken up by two sets of six stairs with round rails going down them. You need to ollie up onto the banks in order to skate them, or bring a sign or any other sheet of metal or wood in order to avoid that step. You can skate them as generic banks, slanted manual pads, do tricks into them because there is a chain at the top, or do tricks over the rail into the bank. There ledges running alongside both sides of the entire bank layout, they are rounded off, round granite, but will both grind/slide given the right amount of wax. You can either skate them completely over the bank or into it. There's also a four-up-four-down set-up right above the banks.
Tennis Court Area
Here you will find infinite amounts of two-foot high marble ledge son brick ground. They'll usually need wax when you're skating here. There's two sets of ledge-to-round-rail obstacles so that you could approach the rail from the side, making it only about two-feet, to a-foot-and-a-half high. There are also several waxed concrete ledges up top without ends that could be skated. Right outside the building that separates the campus from the tennis courts is a miniture two-flat-two double set with ample runway and a fairly rough, but workable runway. Behind the building you could also afind a grey granite ledge going down a hill.
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