The Brooklyn Bridge, a landmark built to connect once separate cities, is 140 years old. Underneath the roads on the Manhattan side was a series of sloping redbrick embankments that, in the 1980s, became the birthplace of a gritty New York street-style of skateboarding – the Brooklyn Banks.
The New York City mayor, Eric Adams, took a break last week from dealing with his city’s social and economic headaches to reopen the cambered banks and pay tribute to the skateboarding pioneers who helped
