When people say the name “New York,” people think of the town that boasts of itself as the world’s greatest city. This is indeed a New York story, but it has nothing to do with either yellow cabs or Times Square. This is about Madison County in rural upstate New York, where the people are more likely to cook you breakfast than call the cops if they find you sleeping on their front doorstep

Silverfish Longboarding.com's column in Concrete Wave.  Racing, Racing and Racing.

The Spring '07 edition of The 'Fish Report, covering product reviews, the Littleton Slide Jam, updated Events Calendar and the 2007 Board Builders' Series.

The global public skatepark movement planted its flag on the shores of a new land on October 30, 2007 when Galit Skatepark opened in Tel Aviv, Israel. Galit is the largest skatepark in the Middle East, covering 28,000 square feet. For the past 25 years Israeli skaters have been subsisting on plywood construction, pay-to-skate parks in various states of disrepair, a few private ramps and choice street spots that were quickly sessioned until the arrival of the rent-a-cops. Despite its hot, dry climate, Israel has very few swimming pools per capita, and every one we’ve spotted had squared walls with a square bottom. Ah, yes, there was one miserable attempt to create a mellow bowled skate spot in a Jerusalem park years back. Unfortunately, the local contractor mistranslated the phrase “smooth concrete surface” into “slipperyas- ice surface,” and hence, Sacker Park earned its nickname “Sucker Park.

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