Andy Kessler Skate Park — Attraction in New York

Potential to be great, but managed horribly. It's the only skatepark I've ever been to that requires FULL PADS. Requiring a helmet is fine, but forcing everyone to wear knee pads and elbow pads is ridiculous. It's extremely constricting and very uncomfortable. I'm sure those who created the rules don't skateboard, but take it from me and everyone else that has ever stood on a skateboard: wearing knee pads makes skateboarding much more difficult much less enjoyable.

The skatepark is also closed the vast majority of the time and opens for to the public very late in the season and closes early.

All around very poor waste of what could be a fantastic spot for the many people on the UWS that love skateboarding, biking, etc. I'm disappointed to...

looked like a great skate park, but they were closed end everything was locked up. There was no point in hopping the fence because there were big metal tubes chained to almost every obstacle in the park. But on the good side there were some really great stairs and rails around the park. They had a bit of a rough roll away but we're still able to be skated. There was also some good flat ground with not many people leading up to where the...

The problem with this skatepark is that it’s an issue to get to and out from. No handicap Accessibility at 108th Street for those that live or visit in the neighborhood. You have to enter all the way down at 96th street. Not a fan on the location of this park. Last time I been to this park was 2001 and all this remodeling and not talks about fair entrance for all. NYCParks need to make a skatepark in Central Park “such a better...