Brooklyn Banks under threat

</figure> It looks like one of the skate worlds seven wonders maybe under threat. News just in that the legendary Brooklyn Banks maybe under threat. Snaffled this up over at Daves Quality Meats:

Well the small banks the good ones have been gone for years now. Unfortunately it sounds like the rest of the Brooklyn Banks will soon be unskateable as well
The area under the Brooklyn Bridge has been a popular skateboard park for decades but its days are soon coming to an end at least temporarily.
The city plans to use the internationally known Brooklyn Banks skate park as a staging area during the Brooklyn Bridge reconstruction replica vacheron constantin which is starting later this year and will last until 2014 said Ralph Musolino hublot big bang tantalum watch a district manager for the city Parks Dept.
Musolino said the closure of the skate park was not certain but Scott Gastel spokesperson for the city Dept. of Transportation later said the city would definitely need the space. Gastel was not sure when the park would

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I once went to the banks in 1998 with hilarious NYC skate photographer Giovanni Reda. He told me a pretty amazing story regarding the sequence (pictured above) of Rob Welsh. Reda arrived at the banks one morning zenith grand class replica watches when Welshy was trying to switch tre flip the wall. Reda watch him try it for an hour or so and I guess because photogs were running strictly film back then (pre digi sequences) he neglected to try and shoot the ground breaking move. Rob was still trying it when Reda headed off into the city on some mission. He was gone for the entire day. When he got back to the banks Welshy was still trying to put down the switch tre over the wall onto freeway off ramp. Reda is known for his enthusiasm and he no doubt exuded some when he drawled: Ok Rob this try make it this try. I have one roll of film. I think he made it on the first attempt that the camera was pointed at. There are no doubt thousands of stories like this relating to the progression at this all time spot. Fingers Crossed we dont lose this one.