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Enemies of the Skate

The saga of the attempts by city officials to regulate skateboarding - and of efforts by skateboarders to resist those regulations - is a long (if not always glorious) one.

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Posted: Thu, Oct. 11, 2012, 12:00 AM

Enemies of the Skate

A brief history of skateboarders’ skirmishes with City Hall.

Isaiah Thompson

City Paper

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