Closing Bell: Snowboarding on the Urban Slopes


From jsjcreative comes a video of people snowboarding in Fort Greene Park, the day after the big storm. More experienced boarders are teaching younger kids, and everyone is having a great time playing in the snow, and life is good. Unfortunately, it seems that it is illegal to snowboard in New York City parks, and rangers come over to let everyone know. Talk about taking the wind out of your sails. The people who were snowboarding, and the filmmakers who made this video, want to petition the city to change this policy. I can see where boarding off Riverside Park onto the West Side Highway would not be a good thing, but surely, there should be places in many of our parks where snowboarding could be allowed. What say you?

By Montrose Morris |