Landscape architect M. Paul Friedberg created the Brooklyn Banks in 1973, but even he couldn’t predict that they would become so much more than just a pile of bricks. “So kids like to skateboard there now?” he chuckles. “It certainly wasn’t designed with skating in mind… I don’t have a rationale when I design. So much of it is intuitive, like Stravinsky said, ‘It’s not premeditated, it’s all trial and error.’”
I went to have a look around there in late 2019 when it was all closed off but before they took away the bricks, got shouted at by various NYPD for trying to get through the fence
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