Project Spark http://projectsparkny.com A Project For Staten Island's First Indoor Skatepark Sat, 07 Jan 2012 17:05:16 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 Roller Race to Support the Kingsbridge Armory Velodrome Jan 19, 2012 http://projectsparkny.com/roller-race-to-support-the-kingsbridge-armory-velodrome-jan-19-2012/ http://projectsparkny.com/roller-race-to-support-the-kingsbridge-armory-velodrome-jan-19-2012/#comments Sat, 07 Jan 2012 17:00:07 +0000 Ed Pollio http://projectsparkny.com/?p=244 Roller_race_flyer_KH2


Click here for tickets to the Roller Race.

The New York Cycling community is coming together to support the development of a state of the art velodrome complex at the Kingsbridge Armory.

The Event

Roller Race on January 19,2012 at Amity Hall 80 W. 3 St.
Admission $20
John Eustice M.C
Bronx Brewery Drafts for $4

Roller Racing is becoming a hot topic. Ch. 7 News is coming to cover the event.

See the exciting final round Roller Race Video from December’s “Drink Floyd” race.

Capacity limit is only 150. Ensure a spot.Get Tickets here.

Racing starts at 7:30 PM. Come early for Happy Hour and dinner. Amity Hall has a Full Menu

Info for Racers

Race Entry $10
$500 Prize Money – payout is for first five places. $200,$125,$75,$50,$50

Winner receives free entry for Red Hook Crit

sign up at 6:30 at the race venue – USAC license required – 2012 licenses and 1-Day licenses will be available.

The roller racing rules including gear restrictions.

Read the whole story here.

http://www.ncacycling.com/2012/01/support-the-kingsbridge-armory-velodrome-roller-race/

]]> http://projectsparkny.com/roller-race-to-support-the-kingsbridge-armory-velodrome-jan-19-2012/feed/ 0 National Cycling Association unveils plan for velodrome and BMX park in Kingsbridge Armory http://projectsparkny.com/national-cycling-association-unveils-plan-for-velodrome-and-bmx-park-in-kingsbridge-armory/ http://projectsparkny.com/national-cycling-association-unveils-plan-for-velodrome-and-bmx-park-in-kingsbridge-armory/#comments Sat, 05 Nov 2011 00:17:32 +0000 Ed Pollio http://projectsparkny.com/?p=239 National Cycling Association unveils plan for

velodrome and BMX park in Kingsbridge Armory

Would rent landmark site for youth programs and six-day bicycle races

BY DANIEL BEEKMAN
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS

Thursday, November 3 2011, 6:31 PM

<br /> A rendering of plans for a velodrome in the Kingsbridge Armory.<br />

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A rendering of plans for a velodrome in the Kingsbridge Armory.

<br /> The long vacant Kingsbridge Armory could be site of a world-class velodrome and BMX park.<br />

Michael Schwartz for New York Daily News

The long vacant Kingsbridge Armory could be site of a world-class velodrome and BMX park.

The National Cycling Association unveiled its plan on Thursday to build a world-class velodrome and BMX park in the Bronx’s long-vacant Kingsbridge Armory.

CEO Jack Simes of NCA revealed that the group hopes to rent the landmark building from the city for eight weeks next spring to host a demonstration project, including youth programs and a six-day bicycle race.

“We want to install a temporary velodrome in the building and bring six-day bicycle racing back to the United States,” said Simes, standing under the cavernous roof of the armory. “We also want to develop free cycling programs for Bronx youth with top cyclists as coaches.”

Simes and NCA director Michael Green claim a cycling center would help local youth stay healthy and attract tourists to W. Kingsbridge Road. Six-day racing is no longer a popular spectator sport in the U.S. but still draws crowds in Europe.

The sport first became popular at Madison Square Garden in the late 19th century. The Kingsbridge Armory hosted six-day races in the 1920s and 1940s.

“Bicycle racing has been a part of the building for a long time — we want to see it return to that,” Green said, comparing the Kingsbridge Armory to the Fort Washington Armory in Washington Heights, which has been redeveloped as a track and field center.

It would cost $700,000 to build a temporary velodrome in the Kingsbridge Armory and put on free clinics for local youth next spring, Simes said, vowing to get the cash from private sponsors.

The temporary arena would seat more than 2,500 spectators and would be built by Ralph Schuermann, designer of velodromes for the Olympic Games.

“The atmosphere here would be great,” said Schuermann. “Just imagine the roar of the crowd — it gives you chills.”

The city has yet to sign off on renting the armory for the demonstration, let alone a permanent cycling center, which would require taxpayer funds, Simes said.

But Barbara Stronczer, president of the Bedford Mosholu Community Association, called the NCA plan “exciting.”

“There are a lot of unanswered questions,” she said. “But cycling wouldn’t compete with existing businesses and I think it would be great for our youth.”

The cycling center plan was among several proposals submitted last spring to Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr.’s Kingsbridge Armory task force. Diaz convened the panel following a battle over a plan to convert the fortress into a shopping mall.

He warred with Mayor Bloomberg over the plan, demanding wage guarantees for workers at the mall. The City Council sided with Diaz in 2009 and voted the plan down.

Diaz announced batch of proposals for the armory last June, including a megachurch and an ice hockey arena. But the borough president has yet to throw his support behind a single plan and will need help from the mayor to get any project off the ground.

Diaz thanked the NCA for its interest in the armory and said he’s ready to work with the Bloomberg administration to forge a new plan for the site.

Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national-cycling-association-unveils-plan-velodrome-bmx-park-kingsbridge-armory-article-1.971978#ixzz1cmjv1sfF

]]> http://projectsparkny.com/national-cycling-association-unveils-plan-for-velodrome-and-bmx-park-in-kingsbridge-armory/feed/ 0 “Why did you allow the commissioner to destroy our skate park?” http://projectsparkny.com/%e2%80%9cwhy-did-you-allow-the-commissioner-to-destroy-our-skate-park%e2%80%9d/ http://projectsparkny.com/%e2%80%9cwhy-did-you-allow-the-commissioner-to-destroy-our-skate-park%e2%80%9d/#comments Sun, 14 Aug 2011 04:01:12 +0000 Ed Pollio http://projectsparkny.com/?p=237 Here is a video of me asking NYC Parks Commissioner Adrian Benepe a question about the Benjamin Soto skate park on August 9th, 2011 at the Museum of New York City.  More about the meeting here.

I guess he didn’t see this video.

Councilman Oddo Threatens To Cut Funds To Parks Department from Group Home Bikes on Vimeo.

 

Thanks Johanna at parkslope.patch.com

]]> http://projectsparkny.com/%e2%80%9cwhy-did-you-allow-the-commissioner-to-destroy-our-skate-park%e2%80%9d/feed/ 0 Councilman Oddo Threatens To Cut Funds To NYC Parks Department because of mishandling of skate park http://projectsparkny.com/councilman-oddo-threatens-to-cut-funds-to-nyc-parks-department-because-of-mishandling-of-skate-park/ http://projectsparkny.com/councilman-oddo-threatens-to-cut-funds-to-nyc-parks-department-because-of-mishandling-of-skate-park/#comments Tue, 09 Aug 2011 02:56:04 +0000 Ed Pollio http://projectsparkny.com/?p=234

Councilman Oddo Threatens To Cut Funds To Parks Department from Group Home Bikes on Vimeo.
Whole story here.

]]> http://projectsparkny.com/councilman-oddo-threatens-to-cut-funds-to-nyc-parks-department-because-of-mishandling-of-skate-park/feed/ 0 Bikers’ Dream: A Bronx Velodrome and Indoor Skate Park. http://projectsparkny.com/bikers%e2%80%99-dream-a-bronx-velodrome-and-indoor-skate-park/ http://projectsparkny.com/bikers%e2%80%99-dream-a-bronx-velodrome-and-indoor-skate-park/#comments Sun, 10 Jul 2011 07:57:57 +0000 Ed Pollio http://projectsparkny.com/?p=231 Bikers’ Dream: A Bronx Velodrome

Above left, Fred Sass/The New York Times; Ozier Muhammad/The New York Times

Above left, the Kingsbridge Armory briefly revived six-day bicycle racing in New York in 1948. Jack Simes, far left, and Mike Green want to restore the long-vacant and much-fought-over armory, right, for cycling events.

By J. DAVID GOODMAN

DWARFED by the soaring expanse of the long-vacant Kingsbridge Armory, a small group of bike advocates and Bronx residents strolled through the main hall recently and imagined a mecca of bicycling.

Picture it: Over here, young BMX riders from the neighborhood perform tricks, spinning their bike frames and leaping over obstacles. Over there, racers warm up and cool down, as fans drink Belgian beer at an indoor bar and live bands play.

And in the center, under the lights, elite athletes from around the world zip around a smooth plywood track during six days of competition — the sort of marathon racing that once drew tens of thousands of spectators to cycling tracks, or velodromes, across New York, from Coney Island to Madison Square Garden.

“Six-day races are a blend of Broadway show, going out to dinner and high-end sporting event,” said Jack Simes, a Pennsylvania bike track developer and elite rider who led the group through this vision for the Bronx armory, New York’s largest and among the most fought-over. “We want to bring them back to New York.”

Mr. Simes and Michael Green, the former president of a local bike racing club, have founded the National Cycling Association to help create a cycling center and 820-foot track in the armory. As a first step, they plan to seek city approval to rent the fortress for a demonstration race sometime in the next year as a “proof of concept,” Mr. Simes said.

Theirs is just one of several proposals for the 285,000-square-foot space. But the dream of recapturing the glory days of the velodrome has been surprisingly common, if largely quixotic.

Jason Gallacher, a bike shop owner in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, recently had the dream, picturing bike aficionados flocking to an indoor track in Greenpoint. “I firmly believe that there needs to be a beautiful facility in this city,” he said. “We created track racing.” But his proposal has been shot down by residents, who would prefer to see a public park instead.

Josh Rechnitz and Matthew Heitman formed a nonprofit group, New York Velodrome, in 2009 to push for a track in Manhattan. The effort has faltered, and the group appears to have ceased trying.

The Kingsbridge Armory was the site of an indoor racing revival in 1948, when six-day races returned to the city, but only briefly. And the most promising plan would have built a track in the Bronx as part of the city’s bid to host the 2012 Olympics. That, too, failed.

Still, as the Bloomberg administration has beckoned bikers to the streets in recent years, many have looked back at the history of New York cycling and the heyday of urban track racing, in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

Then, Madison Square Garden attracted hordes of race fans to grueling competitions that, long before Nascar, featured hair-raising speed and spectacular crashes. Newspapers condemned the brutality of races in which racers pedaled nonstop for days. “The knowledge that a man can propel himself 1,769 miles in 110 ½ hours is purchased too dearly when it costs the reason and the physical well-being of the person who imparts it,” The New York Times said in an editorial in 1897.

City lawmakers responded by limiting the time a racer could ride in one stretch. But the organizers adapted, adding a second rider to relieve the first periodically in team events that came to be known as Madisons.

Modern six-day races, which are held mostly in Europe, limit the amount of cycling per day. The demonstration race that Mr. Simes and Mr. Green want to bring to the Kingsbridge Armory would feature six nights of events on a temporary track, with tickets sold for all or part of the competition.

From there, the two hope to attract strong corporate sponsors and show the city the viability of a permanent cycling center in the Bronx.

But, for the moment, the idea faces significant challenges, starting with financing. The permanent track alone would cost a few million dollars, by Mr. Simes’s estimate.

The armory has already been the battleground for a rancorous public fight over a planned mall that pitted residents against developers, and Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg against the City Council.

After the mall project was scrapped in 2009, many competing proposals emerged, including a film studio, an educational complex and a home for sustainable food production. “Whatever it is, it has to add to the community,” said Kwasi Akyeampong, a community representative from the Kingsbridge Armory Redevelopment Alliance, who tagged along with the cyclists’ tour last month.

As they gazed around the drill floor, another group — dressed in business suits and talking about a hockey rink — moved quickly past. “That’s the competition,” Mr. Simes said. “But I like a horse race.”

Should the cyclists lose that race, there is still one place for bicycle track riding in New York: the Kissena Velodrome in Queens.  It may not have a roof, a bar or even a subway stop close by, but racers still compete there regularly on its banked and sun-baked circuit of asphalt, as they have since 1962.

 

Whole Story Here.

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/10/nyregion/bikers-dream-of-turning-bronx-armory-into-a-velodrome.html?_r=1&scp=1&sq=kingbridge%20armory&st=cse

]]> http://projectsparkny.com/bikers%e2%80%99-dream-a-bronx-velodrome-and-indoor-skate-park/feed/ 0 New Soto Skate Park: Where’s the challenge? say skateboarders and bikers http://projectsparkny.com/new-soto-skate-park-where%e2%80%99s-the-challenge-say-skateboarders-and-bikers/ http://projectsparkny.com/new-soto-skate-park-where%e2%80%99s-the-challenge-say-skateboarders-and-bikers/#comments Sat, 02 Jul 2011 14:33:52 +0000 Ed Pollio http://projectsparkny.com/?p=227 No challengeSoto Skate Park’s new look with no ramps. “This is a slap in the face,” said Stephen Quigley, 17, of Grant City, a constant presence at the skate park for the past four years. “It’s like taking tackle out of football.” (Staten Island Advance/Virginia N. Sherry)

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. – MIDLAND BEACH – Young skateboard and BMX enthusiasts who previously flocked to Benjamin Soto Skate Park from all over Staten Island expressed astonishment and disappointment last week about what they see as the dumbed-down version of the borough’s only skate park. The city’s Parks Department reopened the site on June 16.

“This is terrible – there are no ramps – this place is not a skate park any more,” said Woodrow resident Matt Duffy, 14, who attends Tottenville High School and gets from his South Shore home to the Midland Beach facility via the Staten Island Railway (SIR).

Great Kills resident Chris Nazzaro, 17, a recent graduate of Monsignor Farrell High School who will enter the College of Staten Island (CSI) as a freshman, agreed. “I’ll grind the rails for a little, and then find somewhere else to go,” he said.

“The old park was fine – we had a good and decent park – all it needed was repairs,” said Joshua Ocasio, a 20-year-old engineering major at CSI who lives in Prince’s Bay. “They just tore down everything. It should not have been bulldozed. This is crap.”

The Parks Department told the Advance on Monday that “six steel and concrete benches and multiple steel rails planned for the site are now installed,” and “a low concrete platform and ramp will be installed this summer.”

In a statement, the agency explained that “ramps over three feet require safety equipment and helmets and staff to monitor,” adding that “most of the new skate parks being built have primarily ‘street elements.’

“We hope to add concrete ramps, bowls and other elements when we have funding, but we will not be adding ramps over three feet as has been discussed with the community and elected officials on previous occasions,” the agency said.

“This is a slap in the face,” said Stephen Quigley, 17, of Grant City, a constant presence at the skate park for the past four years. “It’s like taking tackle out of football.”

“It’s a disgrace that it’s come down to this, and there’s only this to show,” said a disgusted Tim Cox, 15, of Bulls Head, a BMX enthusiast who attends McKee High School and sometimes rides his bike from the West Shore to Midland Beach when he cannot catch a car ride.

‘NO VARIETY’

SOTO Skate ParkFrom left to right, skateboarders Rich Rojas of Rosebank, 18; Joshua Ocasio of Prince’s Bay, 20; and Akeim Whylie, 16, also of Rosebank. “They should add quarter-pipes, banks, and ramps,” said Rojas, who used Soto Skate Park for four years before it was shut down and demolished.

Skateboarders voiced similar complaints last week, all of them upset about the lack of ramps that allowed them to ride, “get air,” and establish momentum for other tricks. “You can’t fly off any of this stuff – there’s no variety,” one of them said.

“I can’t skate transition and do ‘tranny’ tricks. It’s all rails and street stuff,” another complained.

“It’s the worst thing ever. They should take it back, and put in some real edges,” said Akeim Whylie, 16, who lives in Rosebank and attends Ft. Hamilton High School in Brooklyn. “This is like junkyard welding,” he commented, pointing to the low metal rails. “I know because my dad is a welder. I want to unbolt this stuff, and bring it home for my dad to make better.”

His friend Rich Rojas, 18 – a McKee High School student, also from Rosebank – said that the newly reopened park “is not what I was expecting. I’m a little grateful, but they should add quarter-pipes, banks, and ramps.

“They didn’t consult with us when they made this. There should be fewer rails,” added Rojas, a user of the park for the last four years.

The whole point of skate parks is the availability of infrastructure not easily – and legally – found on the streets, the young riders explained.

“Kids go pro at 14 years old,” said Quigley of Grant City. “So for those of us trying to go pro, this is wasted time that we can’t get back. This was a place to learn – the only place on Staten Island.”

WHAT’S NEXT?

“We recognize that the current ‘street elements’ may not accommodate all styles of riding, and we are working with the skateboard and BMX community to identify and advocate for either future enhancements to Ben Soto, or the complete rebuild of a new skate park at the same location,” the Parks Department said in its statement. The agency noted, however, that “there is no budget at this time” to reconstruct Soto Skate Park.

SOTO Skate ParkBMX bikers at Soto Skate Park — “This is a slap in the face,” said one.

“We are also investigating additional skate park opportunities in Staten Island parks,” the agency added. “We are now considering the possibility of adaptively-reusing the old Safari Amusement Park site (at Arthur Kill Road and Richmond Avenue, owned by the Parks Department) as a skate park,” the agency stated, noting that “a Request for Proposal for the operation of the adjacent building facility as a Parks Concession was released on April 20, and the deadline was June 23.

 

Read the whole story here

http://www.silive.com/eastshore/index.ssf/2011/06/new_soto_skate_park_no_challen.html

 

]]> http://projectsparkny.com/new-soto-skate-park-where%e2%80%99s-the-challenge-say-skateboarders-and-bikers/feed/ 0 NYC Parks Dept fails at rebuilding Benjamin Soto Skate park http://projectsparkny.com/nyc-parks-dept-fails-at-rebuilding-benjamin-soto-skate-park/ http://projectsparkny.com/nyc-parks-dept-fails-at-rebuilding-benjamin-soto-skate-park/#comments Mon, 27 Jun 2011 03:24:40 +0000 Ed Pollio http://projectsparkny.com/?p=223

See the whole story here.

http://www.grouphomebikes.com/2011/06/more-photos-of-ben-soto-skatepark/

]]> http://projectsparkny.com/nyc-parks-dept-fails-at-rebuilding-benjamin-soto-skate-park/feed/ 0 http://projectsparkny.com/221/ http://projectsparkny.com/221/#comments Mon, 27 Jun 2011 03:12:57 +0000 Ed Pollio http://projectsparkny.com/?p=221 The Bronx‘s long-vacant, hotly disputed Kingsbridge Armory could become a massive cycling palace, housing a velodrome and a BMX course.

A proposal submitted this spring to the borough president’s task force calls for the rundown, fortresslike building to host international racing events and free programs for kids. The armory’s large 600-by-300-foot drill floor makes it especially appealing, said would-be developer Michael Green, former president of the Century Road Club Association.

“We want to get more young people involved in cycling,” said Green, who pointed to the success of a similar project, the 168th St. Armory Track and Field Center in Washington Heights.

The proposal for a cycling center – one of several ideas under task force review – follows a 2009 battle over a plan to redevelop the armory into an enormous shopping mall.

Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr. warred with Mayor Bloomberg over the plan, and demanded wage guarantees for anyone who worked there. In 2009, the City Council sided with Diaz and voted the project down.

About a year ago, Diaz formed the task force and later commissioned a study by students from New York University‘s Robert F. Wagner School for Public Service. He’s expected to release the study’s findings soon and outline the other proposals under review.

A spokesman for the city’s Economic Development Corp. said the Bloomberg administration will “listen to all feasible proposals that include private-sector investment and use city funds responsibly.”

Green said he and his partner, Jack Simes, president of the National Cycling Association, already have financial backers for the Kingsbridge Road cycling project.

Mel Rodriguez, founder of Bike the Bronx, said a cycling center could help keep kids healthy and slim.

“I’m 100% for it,” said Rodriguez, of Co-op City. “It could help solve the problem of obesity in the Bronx.”

But local activist Desiree Pilgrim-Hunter questioned the need, saying a cycling center isn’t one of her neighborhood’s top priorities. “We need schools built. We need living-wage jobs at the armory…and affordable food options,” Pilgrim-Hunter said.
Read more: http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2011/06/20/2011-06-20_history_bronx_building_kingsbridge_armory_may_become_cycling_center_and_bmx_cour.html#ixzz1Q4H1IgTs

]]> http://projectsparkny.com/221/feed/ 0 Media coverage of the Protest for the Ben Soto skate park http://projectsparkny.com/media-coverage-of-the-protest-for-the-ben-soto-skate-park/ http://projectsparkny.com/media-coverage-of-the-protest-for-the-ben-soto-skate-park/#comments Wed, 18 May 2011 04:08:59 +0000 Ed Pollio http://projectsparkny.com/?p=214 STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — They had iPods in their pockets rather than guitars on their laps, and the flowers in their hair more likely hailed from the Mall than San Francisco’s hillsides.

But the spirit of the 1960s, of civil disobedience and of fighting for what’s right, pulsed just the same yesterday through the crowd of about 300 teens outside New Dorp High School, during a half-day “sit-in” protesting the dismantling of their beloved Ben Soto Skate Park, located blocks away.

The event, attended by their teachers and observed by a relaxed gathering of school police just paces away, was part real-life advocacy, part performance art, and the culminating act of the academic year for the school’s Academy of Fine and Dramatic Arts.

It was also timed to coincide with school performances this weekend of the iconic hippie musical, “Hair,” and in advance of a giant rally planned for Sunday at the site of the shuttered Midland Beach skate park.

“If you don’t get what you want by waiting, you have to take action,” said New Dorp senior and avid skateboarder Marco Hernandez, who advocated for the park at numerous civic meetings even before his classmates became involved. “A lot of people together can make a difference.”

Behind him, the students raised their fists in the air and chanted “Soto!” “Soto!” Most sat cross-legged on the cool cement, with an especially passionate group having bound themselves with rope to the 32-foot-high aluminum sculpture at the school entrance.

“This educates them what their options are on having their voices heard,” said Arthur Vallario, who teaches art. “These kids chose to bring attention to the park because all of them know about it and are affected by what happened.”

The Ben Soto Skate Park opened in April 2005 and drew thousands of sports enthusiasts before it was padlocked and temporarily closed last fall by the city Parks Department for what was said to be “maintenance and repair.”

A plan is under way to resurrect the park. But the new design is not slated to include the features that drew so many BMX bikers and skateboarders to the site, advocates say.

“I want to let you know, that if you feel like you can’t do something to better your community, you can!” Edward Pollio, the park’s most vocal advocate, shouted over the roar of teens.

New Dorp High Scool students stage a sit-inAbout 300 teens took part in a protest against the dismantling of Soto Skate Park.Watch video

“Nobody listens to kids our age. People think just because we are kids we are going to go there and do something we shouldn’t,” said freshman Victoria Nespina, who, in a fashion statement that predates her parents’ salad days, wore her Joni Mitchell-esque hair in long pigtails, an American Flag bandanna on her head and cut-off denim shorts.

“We had planned to do a protest and they came up with this as a cause,” said Assistant Principal Angela Carannante, beaming like a proud mother at her protesters. She said teachers and students worked long hours to plan and successfully pull off this unique nexus of politics, theater and education.

Every once in a while, Ms. Carannante would get in on the act, bellowing at the students to “Go back to class,” to which they responded, with unfeigned enthusiasm, “Hell no!”

 

 

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Commissioner Long Where’s our Park?

Arthur

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Crowd

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I love BMX

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300 Students protesting

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Front of New Dorp High school

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BenjaminSoto Deserves our Respect.

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Sit in.

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Skate on the Bull Horn.

Tommy John

Tommy John speaking to the crowd.

 

Ed Pollio

Ed Pollio speaking to the crowd.

 

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Protesters tied up.

 

 

 

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Charlie, Steve, and Alissa.

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Honestly I am amazed by this turn out and all the support for the Benjamin Soto skate park. NYC Parks needs to pay attention to these smart young future voters.

 

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