Underneath the Manhattan side of the Brooklyn Bridge, an area long referred to by skaters as the Brooklyn Banks, the city is building a new “skateboard-friendly” park. Ellen Epstein of Vollmer Associates, a landscape architect working on the new park, is trying to incorporate to “skate features” rather than make a skate park, with the goal of creating a space that both skaters and nonskaters can enjoy. We haven’t been on a skateboard since around 1976, but sounds like a fine idea to us.
Under a Bridge, Skate-Friendly Park [NY Times]