EditorialSkateboarders at Rose Street on the Manhattan side of the Brooklyn Bridge, known as the Brooklyn Banks, in New York on July 23, 1989. The space has been closed since 2010. (Michelle V. Agins/The New York Times)
EditorialUgo Bertolucci, who said that skateboarders were once considered “extraterrestrials” in a nation where soccer was king, with his dogs at the new skatepark near the Colosseum in Rome, Dec. 30, 2022. (Stephanie Gengotti/The New York Times)
EditorialUgo Bertolucci, who said that skateboarders were once considered “extraterrestrials” in a nation where soccer was king, with his dogs at the new skatepark near the Colosseum in Rome, Dec. 30, 2022. (Stephanie Gengotti/The New York Times)
EditorialSkateboarders practice their tricks at Poshtova Square Poshtova Square in Kyiv, Ukraine on Friday, Oct. 28, 2022. (Brendan Hoffman/The New York Times)
EditorialSkateboarders talk while taking a break at Betsy Head Park in the Brownsville neighborhood of Brooklyn, March 21, 2021. (Lanna Apisukh/The New York Times)
EditorialThe photographer Yoshio Higai with some of his photographs of skateboarders, at the Nike Dojo in Tokyo, Aug. 26, 2019. (Chang W. Lee/The New York Times)