Another one of those retro things that makes us remember the good old days when things were much simpler. Scans by Jimmy Marketti.

A two-page spread that Ted Newsome did about New York City back in 1998, featuring a pretty sick photo from the other Globe spot, that significantly less people tend to skate. [Click to enlarge]. Read the rest of this entry »

I’m somewhat late on this, but taking into account the sheer enjoyability of this video, I figure it merits a blurb even if it is a year overdue.

Over the past two or three years, it seems like skateboarding has grown more concerned with its past. Documentaries, books, and vintage skate photography blogs seem to be a rapidly growing sect of the skate-site world, and are all a bit concerned with the closer future than with the contests, pools and snake-runs that tend to dominate most people’s conceptions of “skateboarding history.” We’ve began to dwell into past eras that have come to define street skating as it is today, and regardless of what many try to argue — San Francisco is bar-none the most important city in the development of street skating, not New York, Philadelphia, Barcelona, Los Angeles or Coxsackie, NY. Read the rest of this entry »

The following is an article written by Eli Gesner that originally appeared in the August 1997 issue of Strength Magazine. It was then featured as the ‘About’ section of the original Zoo York website. The article itself is a very detailed history of Zoo York’s creation as a company, and as a crew dating back to the 1970s, but the overall of scope of it serves as a rather comprehensive history of New York skateboarding’s early history overall. It’s a pretty informative and entertaining read, because detailed skateboarding histories like this rarely come to light. Hopefully that all starts to change, but until then, here’s one for the archive…

Before I get on with anything, I want the world to know that there are hundreds of people over decades of history who devoted their lives to the legacy and culture of New York City skateboarding. I only have this limited space to express a story that could fill a book. So before anything else, respect and love to all those forgotten in these passages. This shit ultimately means nothing anyway, all our people will be in our hearts forever. You know who you are. Read the rest of this entry »