Ride report
🇺🇸Brooklyn Banks
Street spot · New York, New York, United States
read at 18:30 local · weather: open-meteo
The wave-like brick banks under the Manhattan side of the Brooklyn Bridge were a cornerstone of New York street skating until they closed for bridge work in 2010; the big banks reopened to the public on June 5, 2025, with skate space developed alongside Gotham Park and The Skatepark Project.
Heads up · The city has budgeted a further rebuild of the space under the bridge (The Arches), so check for construction fencing before you make the trip.
- Who rides it
- Skate · Roller · Inline · Scooter
- Level
- Intermediate
- Cost · lights
- Free · lights unknown
- Source
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Right now
Dry
Rideabledry and 19 °C — after dark, bring a light
Next 24 hours
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prime rideable sit it out · faded = after dark
Best dry windows this week
- Tue 8am–5pmPrime
dry and 15 °C — prime · 10 h, 10 prime
- Thu 8am–5pmPrime
dry and 15 °C — prime · 10 h, 10 prime
- Sat 8am–5pmPrime
dry and 15 °C — prime · 10 h, 10 prime
Light 07:19–17:59
Today
Dry all day
7–23 °C
no rain
Tue
Dry all day
7–16 °C
no rain
Wed
Dry all day
4–16 °C
no rain
Thu
Dry all day
13–20 °C
no rain
Fri
Dry all day
15–23 °C
no rain
Sat
Dry all day
12–17 °C
no rain
Sun
Dry all day
14–17 °C
no rain
daily read · rain counts the day it falls
Bring
- Always → a helmet (required at many parks and every track), and pads for transition and dirt
- After dark → we don't know if it's lit; bring a light
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Same weather, same read: if it's dry here, it's dry at these too — unless they're indoor, or dirt.
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How the read works
We track the water on the ground hour by hour, starting two days back. Rain adds to it; sun, wind and dry air take it away (the forecast's evaporation figure, which folds all three together); frost locks it in. Concrete sheds most of a downpour and dries in a couple of hours on a good day. Dirt soaks it up and takes a day or more, and riding it while it's mud ruts it. It's a model, not a camera: shady corners and the bottom of a bowl hold water longer. Weather from Open-Meteo.