Buffalo Rising may soon be 'Newell's_misadventures_on_his_bike.com'
Kids have been skating this SECRET SPOT for years. Every so often some local skaters go and bail the water out and make small improvement with a few bags of cement. However, by shedding light on this spot, I think, the property owner may put tighter security in. Lets hope not!
Not much of a discovery for those have been around for a few years -- yes, it was all part of the Tee-to-Green project. When completed, it was an early version of brownfields redevelopment, the driving range and other improvements capped a former contaminated site. Unfortunately, the developer had some very questionable buisness practices and a couple of years of operation, was is receivorship with most of his creditors. I think the propoerty was ultimiately auctioned off and picked up by Militello Real Estate, which was eventually found to be acting on behalf of the Ambassador Niagara Group.
This is awesome. i know of a lot of people trying to get a skate park downtown.. i wonder if they know about this place?!?! Newell- thank you for posting this!
metrobflo and arelli hit the nail on the head a young man by the name of ATM discovered this place probably 5 or 6 years ago, and every time more attention is brought to it more people go and destroy it The more attention that is brought to secret spots, the less of a secret they are. This often leads to destruction, or barricades, or security guards, etc. In the future it would be beneficial for skateboarding to keep these kind of things under wraps, so those who enjoy them can continue to
Lost and Found. Make sure it's safe from vermin and I hope the skaters use it. Good for you Newell. Keep finding the lost treasures of Buffalo and piping up about them. The road less traveled is your path. ciao
Great, now the fence will be fixed and the park probably pulverized.
/end sarcasm
sry had to joke, you know I'm probably right tho. Honestly as great as it sounds a Skate park doesn't sound possible unless you really got some Pros to plunk down alot of money. Insurance for those places are a bit steep.
Honestly how many skaters would pay to skate? I never see anyone at the Skate park on Harlem in West Seneca, which is very disappointing.
I doubt the Ambassador Bridge group is about to suddenly run the ship very tightly. Their interest is long term and they are out of town. I doubt they read this or hear of any of this.
nice timing, I just noticed this yesterday for the first time, but I was clipped in to my road bike and couldn't investigate. Thanks for the recon.
As a former Buffalonian and lifetime skateboarder, it might be a lost cause. At least unless the city were to designate it as an official park. People have been hopping (or cutting through) the fence for years, as well as doing their own improvements (as seen in the second picture.)
Unfortunately, the neighborhood kids seem pretty content to come by every few weeks and trash the place. Throwing stuff into the pools, knocking down the extensions that get built, etc. The water tends to get pretty stagnant too.
Newell, great article and cool discovery. Here's a Pictometry (a Rochester company!) view on MSN maps: http://tinyurl.com/4pwtqw.
I love it - a little urban exploring produces an unexpected find. I must check this place out now.
Yeah, so as a couple people already said, this place has been skated by some locals for years now. Many of us have invested a decent amount of money and time over the years buying bags of concrete and hauling it back there to fill in the cracks and build up the one main kidney shaped bowl. Every year though the neighborhood kids with nothing better to do come back there and trach all the work that was put into it. The past couple years nobody has dedidicated any real time to upkeep because they have seen too much of their hard work go to waste. It does still get skated though, and if this little article brings light to the fact that this place is there, and if anyone now gets in trouble for tresspassing or anything back there it would pretty sad that some guy on his bike felt the need to write an article about the place and screw it up for some skateboarders just trying to have fun.
Honestly I overuse the word honestly.
and I'm not a Negative Nancy, I'd love to see this happen and would go to help clean up if something like this happened.
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