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The Bronx‘s long-vacant, hotly disputed Kingsbridge Armory could become a massive cycling palace, housing a velodrome and a BMX course. A proposal submitted this spring to the borough president’s task force calls for the rundown, fortresslike building to host international racing events and free programs for kids. The armory’s large 600-by-300-foot drill floor makes it [...]

STATEN ISLAND, N.Y. — They had iPods in their pockets rather than guitars on their laps, and the flowers in their hair more likely hailed from the Mall than San Francisco’s hillsides. But the spirit of the 1960s, of civil disobedience and of fighting for what’s right, pulsed just the same yesterday through the crowd [...]

Commissioner Long Where’s our Park? Arthur     Crowd I love BMX 300 Students protesting Front of New Dorp High school BenjaminSoto Deserves our Respect. Sit in. Skate on the Bull Horn. Tommy John speaking to the crowd.   Ed Pollio speaking to the crowd.   Protesters tied up.       Charlie, Steve, and Alissa. [...]

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On April 18, 2011 the NYC Parks Department decided to ignore the cries for help by the user’s of the Benjamin Soto skate park; on that day a staff of 20 Parks Department employees tore down the whole park.

Following recent health issues which have grown increasingly worse in the last month, Mike ‘Tag’ Tagliavento, an original member of the FBM team, part owner of Shitluck Clothing, co-producer of classic BMX videos such as “1201″ and all-around amazing BMX rider, was diagnosed earlier this month with Stage ll Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma.

A quiet skate park don’t get fixed. That is the new saying. The old one was, the quiet hinge don’t get oil. So these dedicated riders won’t give up. And keep going to the civic meetings and Community board meetings and here is proof its working. On March 15, 2011 the Benjamin Soto skate park users went [...]

Benjamin Soto skate park users at the South Beach Civic Association Meeting March 23, 2011. The Meeting went well. NYC Parks Department told the South Beach Civic that they will open the park by spring. And they plan to work with the South Beach Civic to remodel the Benjamin Soto skate park in the fall. Steve Quigley [...]