Brooklyn Banks and mid town NYC, 1989

[madestcap]

sum nice ol skool skatin'

[jtpinnyc]

The location of the first footage is Gold St & Fulton St, downtown Manhattan. 

[friedasian]

dude do you have any more of these vids?!

[301video]

unfortunately, no i don't have anymore. but if anyone out there has some old skate footage from the banks ( or any other NYC spots) sitting in their attic/basement feel free to contact me. i'd be happy to digitally restore it and post the footage. I'm mainly interested in the late 1980's and early 1990's.

[brendonhart]

this is so cool love your style. keep up the good work

[12131AllDay]

1:11 so dope

[xtemecousin]

1:57 Ollie to a slappy AT THE BROOKLYN BANKS! what now California

[sk8n8tion]

damn man, what i wouldnt do to go back then for a day

[MetalicB0x]

1:13 - an 80s version of jamal smith:)

[KidDebsBklyn]

When New York actually had New Yorkers in it

[markeesmith]

I'm not sure how many people know this, but Que (along with Mike Hayes from Cleveland -- former Alien Workshop rider) was one of the first dudes to rock laser flips consistently and make them look good. Not too many people were doing them before him and Hayes.

This footage is awesome.

[jesseyeahdude]

damn, dude I was born on October 1989! While I was an infant in the hospital, these guys were tearing it up in the streets. I will never quit skating!!!

[streetskaters30]

those boards musta ben a pain in the ass to skate btw ive never seen a black rodney mullen

[GlobeSkatecrew]

sick ass shit

[AnthoFlex]

to think......i was born this year, and these guys are tearing it up at my favorite spot.....Makes me sad, they must all have white hair now n stuff........damn.....skate while u can i guess......

[tofubandito]

So rad!

[craigers459]

good quality for back in the day

[timtomtwo12]

there closed rip

[teambasics]

wow that was crazy stuff

[BakerMassacre]

1:14 I haven't seen an Irish Shuffle in forever.

[canaydemedian]

wow some video of the original bank nice.

[Trent33424]

wow its cool to see how the old brooklyn bank was skated. :-)

[bxrockstar]

tight!! loved jeff's part, smooth tre flips, nice lip slides and dope backside 180!

[austinnn1one]

anybody know if this was considered really good at that point in time?

[sk8picguy]

holy shit that trick at 1:22 was so fresh

[htb123times]

to think if you do stuff like that today your considered a poser

[rdias67]

@htb123times huh, your not serious right?

[kingofjohn3]

awsome

[eyesalwaysopen]

pang killed it indeed, dope video

[iamtokiton]

think that could have been harold who came in with the frontside ollie at :25?

[FTPfilmsWHC]

i dont know i think harold was bigger. but maybe.

[popoking729]

i love raw footage like this!

[xxxGRENADESxxx]

Too bad the upper banks got closed down...

[jesward]

holy shit. the banks. have really had some change

[chipleader14]

thats the real banks. the banks we skate today is a different place. the banks they skate in there are currently unskateable

[skateemerica14]

dude so gnarly for the time. wow!

[KiDdBiZaRRe]

wow! this is a little gem

[jeffery800]

those old school boards have got some pop on them well ther good ones anyway

[beshanin]

banks iss sooo differnt thennnnnnnn

[Diazx126]

isnt tht street they ollieing on to, is the wall of where the basketball court is t now?

[sneakerthekid]

pang just fucking killin it!! huge 360 kickflip for '89.

[Thepipflip]

this video was put up on my birthday when i was 13 :)

[rblaclewell]

didnt que skate for shut back then theat dude has some killer style.

[skategnarr1995]

haha were they like good for that time period or something??

[Funkatronical]

i was there yesterday 7/4/09 i cleared the flat bar..with a frontside bs.. It takes alot of speed to make it up those banks..

[dcrfilms1]

i wish i skated back in the fishboard dayz alongside with steve rodriguez and anthony poppalardo. especially while that 2nd bank wa still there, would have been rad seshin that shit!

[xxxGRENADESxxx]

Here fishy fishy. Heheh, I love those boards man.

[sneakerthekid]

thats all we had back then man, that twin kick shit wouldnt really hit for a few more years.

[BlueBerryFTW]

where is that first spot?

[Gmancrap]

What kind of camera where you using?

[301video]

Don't know for sure, but I think it was

just some VHS camcorder, maybe a VHS-C.

[david94549]

1:03 is epic

[lifecinemas]

this is like the Nas shit right here

[XsVTony45]

lol now i wanna skate in 1989

[alafleur826]

where the hells is all of that i wanna skate there and idk where that little hill thing is

[Funkatronical]

under the manhattan side of the brooklyn bridge just follow the bridge from below and youll see it

[marauderchick00]

you think they made that area for skaterz or they jus took over haha

[sporadikstyles]

That first trick cue does is ill, How Pang does 360flips with an oldskool deck is beyond me glad I stumbled upon this clip

[Boardslydr]

Rad Style

[erikfurleigh]

olllllld skhool shit tight

[haloaddict246]

if they were that good back then i could only imagine now.....

[p00ninpkers]

they wouldnt be much better cause they would get old and lose some of theyre agility and stuff though so...