New York City's public skateparks, one borough at a time

Five city-run concrete plazas and bowls, read borough by borough, with the details that decide whether a trip is worth it: who the surface was built for, whether bikes are allowed alongside boards, when the gate is open and whether the lights come on after dark. Several sit under infrastructure rather than beside it, tucked below the Robert F. Kennedy Bridge or the elevated 4 train, which is how New York finds the land. Where a park predates the city's 2000s building programme, that history is noted too.

Places in this collection

  • Pyramid ledges — One of NYC’s most iconic skate spots. Two ledges beyond a three-stair, with every detail ready to mess with your head; the grate on the pop…
  • Canarsie Skate Park — A small concrete street course in Canarsie Park off Seaview Avenue, opened in 2012, with ledges, a manual pad, a euro gap, a handrail, bank…
  • River Avenue Skate Park — Ten thousand square feet of concrete built on a slope beneath the elevated subway tracks a block from Yankee Stadium, laid out as a plaza w…
  • Astoria Skate Park — The park sits under the Queens approach to the Robert F. Kennedy Bridge, inside Astoria Park, which means the deck overhead keeps a good pa…
  • Pier 62 Skatepark — Fifteen thousand square feet of concrete built out onto the Hudson at Chelsea Piers, inside Hudson River Park, with the river on three side…

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