“We got a new waiver form you can sign that’s pretty beast,” the manager of Skate Space 198, David Filchak, tells me. He’s there to guide guests to an iPad placed near the newly-opened skate spot’s nondescript metal entryway; behind him and behind another door, some twenty or thirty people can be seen ricocheting off the walls, rapidly propelling themselves on skateboards inside a well-lit room of newly built cement ramps.
The appearance of street iconography indoors–or maybe just its sheer newness–gives off an uncanny effect; ramps, strategically-placed garbage cans and handrails, all once meant to imply…
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