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We knew this day was fast approaching, but now there is an official date — on January 15^th, the Brooklyn Banks will be completely shut down until at least 2014 while the city works on repairs to the Brooklyn Bridge, which is like, total bullshit, ‘cuz who cares about that thing anyway?

The optimists out there are holding out hope that afterwards, the city will work with the skateboarding community in New York to make the Banks skateworthy again, and possibly even better than before. For the record, I’m not an optimist. Like, at all. You’ve got a week, New Yorkers. Everybody else, have a moment of silence, and just watch this retrospective interview about the Banks with Mike Vallely.

Best skate park in the world… because it wasn’t supposed to be a skate park.

A lot has been said about the Brooklyn Banks over its celebrated history, but I think that really says it all. And thank god there’s that level in Tony Hawk’s Pro Skater 2, right?

Here’s to the next filthy ditch or homelessness hideaway that makes skateboarding history, somewhere out there, just waiting to be found.