The Brooklyn Banks Skate Park Set To Close
October 19, 2009 – 8:47 pm PT by MikeTags: Brooklyn Banks —
Time and time again do I find while driving around the city, some of the best skate spots doomed to preventative skate BLOCKERS. What are skate blockers? These are the anti-skate devices latched onto curbs, rails, gaps, banks, or anything fun in order to take the joy away from the skaters. It’s sad that there are companies out there hiring engineers and highly intelligent individuals to design such nuisances. Although sometimes you can get a highly determined team like GIRL who will bring out the necessary tools to remove these skate blockers but for the common folk, it’s simply not worth the time or effort while you can just look for another spot.
But what is a city to do if an entire skate plaza needs to be blocked off? At my old high school and middle school they simply wrapped barbed wire around the entire campus, making the school look like CHINO. And up in San Francisco, EMBARCADERO was filled with sand which replaced the skaters with a bunch of tall hunky VOLLEYBALLERS. I’m assuming now that volleyball players have a new place to play on the east coast.
The Downtown Express reports that an area under the Brooklyn Bridge that’s a popular skatepark called Brooklyn Banks will probably be closing: “The city plans to use the internationally known Brooklyn Banks skate park as a staging area during the Brooklyn Bridge reconstruction, which is starting later this year and will last until 2014,” according to the Parks Department. And the Department of Transportation “said the city would definitely need the space” at some point.
