seagram building

park avenue

In front of this building, there is a long manual pad extending past about a fourth of the block which starts out at about a foot in height and grows to be around two by the end. It's around four feet in width and very smooth on the top. Skating on it going to opposite way, you could hit a foot and a half high, green marble block at the end if you're going straight on. It's only a little over three feet in length and wide enough for lipslides and boardslides. On the opposite end of the plaza, there is an identical set-up, except the drop is around five feet high instead of two. In the center of the plaza's open space, there are two fountains that have sets of long threes in them that could obviously only be skated when they are empty during the wintertime.

52nd Street and Park Avenue. Take the 4, 5, 6 or 7 to 42nd Street-Grand Central, skate east on 42nd for half a block until you reach Lexington Avenue, make a left and skate north for ten blocks. On 52nd Street, make a left and skate west for a block and the spot is right on the corner.

This spot is typically a night spot, but is skateable during the day given how lazy the guard on duty may be at the time. But, like most Park Avenue spots, the odds are against you.