Hey guys, I'm putting together an overlay for Google Maps showing good places to skate in the NYC area. Pat and I talked about this last night and I was bored at work so this is what I started. I'm looking for input from riders in the area to greatly expand the map. If you know of any spots / hills / garages in the area let me know and I'll add them. Also, let me know if you want to be added as a collaborator so you can edit the map yourself. Thanks and I appreciate any help.
Belt Parkway / Shore Parkway between Verrazano Bridge and BayRidge Ave (69th Street), is a flat boardwalk with really good pavement. This is where I practice my boardwalking.
You get to ride right next to the water, and the air is always fresh, because there is always a slight breeze coming from the water side, so the toxic fumes of the highway right next to you, get blown away to the side.
If it gets windy, you have to push against the wind, but going back with the wind is an awesome boardwalking experience.
Also, the Shore Road going paralel to the boardwalk is an awesome road full of hills, unfortunately its a pretty busy road with cars going anywhere from 20 - 50 mph sometimes, so its not a safest spot to skate.
Hey guys, I'm putting together an overlay for Google Maps showing good places to skate in the NYC area. Pat and I talked about this last night and I was bored at work so this is what I started. I'm looking for input from riders in the area to greatly expand the map. If you know of any spots / hills / garages in the area let me know and I'll add them. Also, let me know if you want to be added as a collaborator so you can edit the map yourself. Thanks and I appreciate any help.
In addition to the obvious Prospect Park runs, two good cruiser hills in Brooklyn:
--Third St. between Smith St. and the Gowanus Canal: two long blocks of wide, well-paved, not-too-busy hill with a four-way stop in the middle (so you don't have to) and a long, flat runout to a drawbridge. Perfect late-night carving. Right near the Carroll Street stop on the F. Careful at the bottom!
--Ninth St. between Prospect Park West and Fourth Avenue. Huge, wide, mostly newly-paved street with bike lanes, moderately steep in spots. Traffic and cross-traffic, so best early or late.
Also, any Brooklyn types skate McDonald Ave. by the cemetary between 20th St. and Fort Hamilton? Only driven by but it seems very promising.
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Some areas in Bay Ridge are narrows avenue and 82nd, and shoreroad and 79th. All offer some good carving speeds of high 20's
Also in Dyker on 82nd and 11th, if you take that down towards 86th, it gets you to around 30, and you need to make a 90dergee left or right turn. The traffic makes it fun, and potentially deadly, but can work with a spotter.
The speed is low and boring, but the turn can be fun
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Doesn't look as good as yours, too busy, but you could get some ideas from stuff in there. Some of these are "runs" and others are features (like the dank northern entrance of the Shell station on 5th ave and 36th st), public trans is also included. Sunset Park is super sick for a shorter board, can throw down lots of sick carves, cut-backs and berts while dodging cute little latino children (who are sometimes rockin their own board/razor/bike).
I'm really excited to check out some of these spots in Bay Ridge, a friend told me there was basically nothing to skate there but he most clearly is dead wrong. Never knew about the park, would love to hit up the bowl if only I possessed safety equipment.
Kinda bummed because my roommates want to leave Park Slope and move into Manhattan so it might be much harder for me to skate this awesome terrain in the future.
Hoping to at least do a Park Slope to Coney Island run before my lease is up.
Yup Bay Ridge has its spots along with a few spots in Dyker. People are also forgetting the hill on 75st between Ridge Blvd and Colonial Road, I could see hitting 30 on it given that you have wind going with you.
If you want to skate here, hit me or GravityRider up (we live across the street from eachother).
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If any of you have a gmail e-mail account an want to be added as a contribuitor to the map project (i.e. admin ability so ou can add your own runs etc) pm me your e-mail address and I'll shoot you a link that'll add you to the map. Then you just have to go into google maps open up "my maps" and u'll be able to edit it.
Hi, I have some info about the Bergen street run. It is only from Court to Smith. You can't really skate across Smith, and then it's flat / uphill after that.
As to the downhill portion from Court to Smith, it's a nice slope and very wide. Cars parked on either side and traffic runs up the hill. It's so wide that it's very easy to ride around oncoming traffic. The pavement is very good. Homage skate shop is at the bottom, on Smith street, one or two doors off of Bergen.
You can make nonstop runs all day at all hours until your leg falls off (if you push up the hill).
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