Brooklyn Banks to be closed

I just found out this weekend, that one of the World’s most famous organic skate spots is going to be closing down, so that it can be a parking lot for construction equipment. I’m referring, of course, to the Brooklyn Banks. This fantastic skate spot is located right under the Manhattan side of the Brooklyn Bridge. I posted about it back in April, when I took a walk over there during a break at work. I’m pretty bummed about it. The New York City Parks Department says that “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.” Here is a link to the article in the Downtown Express.

FYI, the kids in the photos are just some random dudes that were skating there when I went by, back in Apr.. But check out this old Thrasher blurb with J. Maready skating the banks (by: http://patrickodell.com).