September 28, 2003: Towards Bushwick
New York in Autumn is my favorite time to skate. The summer tourists are gone, leaving the streets emptier, and the bridges aren't teeming with joggers and other people out for the weather. The only drawbacks are the wind and unpredictable weather, but everything comes with a price. Today I took a fast skate down to the Manhattan Bridge, and once over, on one of my usual routes around the Brooklyn Navy Yard. Beautiful, fast skating- as I came down Flushing Avenue, the sun was hitting the old abandoned buildings behind the Navy Yard fence, and generally making things feel spooky and cool. Instead of skating up Kent, I decided to continue on Flushing, towards Woodhull Hospital in Bushwick. The streets were mostly empty, but for a few orthodoxim walking with those huge hats, and some guys fixing their cars outside the projects. After ten blocks, a left turn brought me to Broadway, and from there, it was a quick skate back to the Williamsburg Bridge and home.
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hey man, your skate logs inspired me to try some more adventursome skates. the other weekend i went over the brooklyn bridge, down through dumbo and viengar hill, up flushing ave., all through willamsburg and eventually back across the williamsburg bridge.
it was a lot of fun, i hope to do some more exploring before it gets too cold.
keep it up!
that's a great skate you did- one of my favorites. let me know if you have any other ideas- i'm running out of good routes!
I have a habit on skate excursions of getting myself lost so that I'll have to find a way back. Like I'm testing my limits, cross the line, and have to wander for a few hours to figure out how to get back before it's *too* dark.
one of these days i'm just going to skate over the GW bridge into jersey and keep going- probably end up in LA after a couple of months.
Skate around the top of the empire state building (hey, you can go all the way around!) and take in the view of everything uptown to the statue of liberty!
Of course, watch out for the metal detectors!
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