This came in the mail the other day from a Japanese dude who was visiting last summer. These things are always amusing, so this is a mandatory post. (more…)

NEW YORK CITY — September 6, 2007 2:34 P.M.

Random ten-year-old at Woodward: “Is this going to be on YouTube or something?”
Watermelon Alex: Hell no, Sanchez only, bitch.”

The official version of the best east coast video in the past fifty years recently arrived after the majority of its post-production was done in India in between giving beer cans to monkeys and chasing Indian girls.

This DVD has the best menu in the history of DVD menus, the original 24 minute video, and four bonus features. The main bonus section is 42 minutes long, and basically the sketchier version of the video in itself, with a soundtrack that ranges from Parliament to Party Alarm to the dancehall remix of “Soul Survivor.” There is also a Woodward section, featuring Watermelon Alex, Jon Newport, Brian Brown and Lurker Lou breaking into parks and hopping gaps with BMX bikes, hustling popsicles to twelve year olds, and getting young kids to say obscene things. I happen to have a pretty strong suspicion that Alex was drunk during the entire time at Woodward. The other two sections are a Mexico section and a Ghana section that don’t make that much sense, but are amazing in their own right.
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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 altogether. 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. (more…)