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Brooklyn Luxury Building Gives Tenants Gift Cards

1 week ago | bkmag.com | Lucas Wisenthal

Brooklyn is home to at least one luxury high-rise for DINKs and DINKs alone, and another that’s mostly vacant. N0w, a tower at 18 Sixth Avenue, in Prospect Heights, is luring prospective tenants with a promise that’s apparently heretofore unheard of: Visa gift cards to help cover the cost of in-building social events. As Curbed...
Rare Snowy Owl Spotted in Brooklyn Park

Jan 3, 2025 | bkmag.com | Lucas Wisenthal

The bird is known for its white plumage and bright yellow eyes. A snowy owl has been seen in Brooklyn’s Shirley Chisholm State Park.
‘It’s Never Been a Competition’: Inside Christmas in Dyker Heights

Dec 20, 2024 | bkmag.com | Lucas Wisenthal

There are, according to Tony Muia, several misconceptions about Dyker Heights and the extravagant Christmas decorations that appear along its blocks every year. For one, residents are under no obligation to festoon their homes and lawns with lights and animatronic characters—a tradition that dates to 1986, when Lucy Spata arrived in the neighborhood and saw no option but to go all out with her holiday decor.
5-Year-Old Scaffolding Set to Come Down at Brooklyn Tech

Dec 13, 2024 | bkmag.com | Lucas Wisenthal

After more than five years, the scaffolding covering Brooklyn Technical High School is coming down. As Gothamist reports, the scaffolding has masked Brooklyn Tech’s exterior since 2019, when the city began repairs on the 90-year-old school—the largest high school in the five boroughs. It will start to remove it in January. The School Construction Authority told the outlet that the scope of the repairs to the building’s roof and facade meant the scaffolding had to stay up for years.
THE RISE AND FALL OF PRO MODEL SKATE SHOES

Apr 3, 2024 | jenkemmag.com | Lucas Wisenthal

Want to have the same skateboard as your favorite pro, down to your bolts and bearings? Easy. Want clothes patterned after their specific wardrobe? No problem. Dead set on wearing a pro’s signature shoe? Well, you’ll probably have to settle for a colorway. In the 2000s, if a skater had a shoe sponsor they either had a signature shoe, were in line for one, or were jumping to a shoe brand that would give them one. Back then, shoe deals could sustain entire careers.
PLOTTING THE LIFECYCLE OF A TRENDY TRICK

Sep 19, 2023 | jenkemmag.com | Lucas Wisenthal

It was June 1993, and I was rolling across a street course at an evangelical skate camp in Ontario, Canada, on 38-millimeter wheels. Inching along, I scraped out a pressure flip, a trick that had tortured me the previous year, prompting Eddie Elguera—the camp’s resident pro—to let out an earnest “Yeah!” Part of my 13-year-old self was satisfied: I’d earned the praise of an actual professional skateboarder. But pressure flips were a relic of a bygone era—that era being the first half of 1992.
PLOTTING THE LIFECYCLE OF A TRENDY TRICK

Sep 19, 2023 | tinyurl.com | Lucas Wisenthal

It was June 1993, and I was rolling across a street course at an evangelical skate camp in Ontario, Canada, on 38-millimeter wheels. Inching along, I scraped out a pressure flip, a trick that had tortured me the previous year, prompting Eddie Elguera—the camp’s resident pro—to let out an earnest “Yeah!” Part of my 13-year-old self was satisfied: I’d earned the praise of an actual professional skateboarder. But pressure flips were a relic of a bygone era—that era being the first half of 1992.
WHY ARE BOARD PRICES ON THE RISE?

Jun 26, 2023 | jenkemmag.com | Lucas Wisenthal

The most stable part of skating used to be the price of a skateboard. Whatever the brand, whatever the graphic, in America, a pro board cost about $55. But unless you get skateboards for free, you’ve probably noticed that, lately, you’ve been paying more for them. Today, the decks on the wall at almost any shop sell for anywhere from $60 to $85, leaving skaters to wonder how the cost of a skateboard suddenly went up.
WHY ARE BOARD PRICES ON THE RISE?

Jun 26, 2023 | tinyurl.com | Lucas Wisenthal

The most stable part of skating used to be the price of a skateboard. Whatever the brand, whatever the graphic, in America, a pro board cost about $55. But unless you get skateboards for free, you’ve probably noticed that, lately, you’ve been paying more for them. Today, the decks on the wall at almost any shop sell for anywhere from $60 to $85, leaving skaters to wonder how the cost of a skateboard suddenly went up.