brooklyn banks
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There's no introduction needed here, given it's the most famous spot New York ever produced. Although the new "skate friendly" banks is inferior to the "back in the day" banks, with the nine stair, ledges and little banks, there's still stuff to have fun with and point lenses at over here, so it's unlikely you'll get bored anytime soon.
The entire northern side of the plaza has the most recognizable obstacle of the spot: the banks. They're brick, around eight feet high, and steeper than footage would lead you to believe. In order to get any height on the actual bank surface, you'll need to start pushing pretty far back so that you could make your way up. There's always the other way of approaching the bank from the top and doing tricks over the curb on the top into the back, but make sure you don't lean in too far, otherwise your friends won't be seeing you for awhile. Given 5Boro and the city's recent efforts to improve the spot, there's a five-foot long wooden box with a hard plastic lip on top of the bank. Additionally, there's two pillars with wallrides which break up the actual embankment more towards the western part of the strip.
Other than that, there's the ten-stair rail for skating on or over. You have to curve into the rail from the path alongside the top of the banks. It's your average handrail in terms of height and only hitable frontside for regular footed skaters and backside for goofy footed ones. Westward, there's the thirteen set, which nobody skates and the infamous nine set, not complete with a high round rail. If anything, it's more practical to skate the steps as a gap than a rail, considering the runway and the landing is near-perfect.
The "intended for skating" obstacles are: an approximately 20 foot long, 2-inch wide metal flatrail that sits a little over a foot above the ground, a handful of two-foot high, 3-and-a-half foot long granite slabs planted all around the spot, typically on a very minor hill (thus only hitable in the direction that the slant goes), a twenty foot long, two-and-a-half foot high box with metal along the edges, and a euro gap set up the first five steps of the ten.
The entire park is obviously composed of brick ground, varying in smoothness, making it the main detractor of the spot.
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Manhattan Side of the Brooklyn Bridge, right under the eastbound ramp to Brooklyn. Take the J, M, Z, 4, 5 or 6 to Brooklyn Bridge-City Hall and just look for the bridge and skate towards it.
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Now that the city designated this place for skateboarding, you're not going to get kicked out. There's minimal light at night, so try to come here during the day.
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