This Manhattan article for the July 1998 issue of Transworld has always been a favorite of mine for pretty obvious reasons. New York is pretty much the only city on the face of the earth that could get almost twenty pages in Transworld with four photos of 5050s. Surprisingly, there is a significant lack of the other two tricks we here in New York are good at — 180s and front shoves, but Reda’s wallride more than makes up for it. A stunning amount of these spots still actually exist. There are about two pages missing. Thanks to Jimmy Marketti for the scans.

Best caption ever.

I never quite understood why Javier’s trick first appeared in a magazine in 1998 and surfaced to video in EST2 in 2002..

The best part about New York skateboarding in the 90s was clearly camo pants.

This may be controversial, but I figure this is a very appropriate time to state it — after Mariano’s part in Mouse, Reda is responsible for the second best video part in skateboarding history.

Page cut, sorry.

Of course, a New York skateboarding article isn’t going to have a single handrail in it, but somehow they managed to sneak in a vert photo.