BY Rainey Skates (@raineyskates) With 2011 arriving via more tweets than phone calls or mass texts, I think it’s pretty safe to hail 2010 as the “Year of Social Media”. It’s everywhere now. But perhaps more importantly, it’s certainly…
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BY Rainey Skates (@raineyskates) Photography collage using photography by M. Tony Peralta and ArtForStrangers Something incredible occurred this past week, Uptown locals started a fire. No – not the traditional kind, and no, not anything like during the ’92…
BY Rainey Skates Historically, Rainey Skates is known for spreading love. All kinds of it! Love for skateboarding, for culture and the Arts, and certainly for New York City. But every now and then, a disturbance in the “force”…
BY Rainey “Skates” Cruz Local restaurant and lounge, Altus Café (4325 Broadway), became the premiere-networking hub this past Saturday, August 21st, thanks to the likes of Juan Bago & Co. Señor Bago’s (Michael Diaz) 7th Bago Brunch, a series dedicated…
BY Rainey “Skates” Cruz Sometimes I worry. I worry about New York City’s art and music scene. I worry that so much time and effort goes into affording the cost of living, that our artists/musicians can no longer afford…
Rainey “Skates” Cruz sits down and chops it up with O.G. NYC Skater/Author Alex Corporan about the early skate scene Uptown, his days at SUPREME and what is was like being a misfit skater in Washington Heights. Check out…
BY Rainey “Skates” Cruz SOA Artist, Washington Heights native, and Uptown Collective member, M. Tony Peralta gets around. Don’t believe me? Then check out what I stumbled upon during a recent visit to Just Chill Skateshop, a new venture…
BY Rainey “Skates” Cruz Far Uptown, on Dyckman Street, nestled by Sherman Avenue, between the hustle and bustle of foot traffic and double-parked cars, sits a man with a stand. No, he doesn’t sell food. And no, he doesn’t…
BY Rainey “Skates” Cruz As spotted on Dyckman St., one of the Caribbean’s most recognizable (and affordable) forms of transportation, the Honda C70 “Passport” motorcycle. The C70 is a 1970-introduced, more powerful and economical version of its 1958 predecessor,…
BY Rainey “Skates” Cruz There was a time when skateboarding was synonymous with California and the West Coast. The late 60’s and early 70’s scene was full of traditional and not-so-traditional surfers that would also “street surf” on small…