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Found Footage: Mike V & The Brooklyn Banks

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Shot last month, this seven minute short features skateboarder Mike Vallely lamenting the soon to be shuttered Brooklyn Banks, a lengendery NYC spot for generations of skater kids at the foot of the Brooklyn Bridge.  The Downtown Express reported last October that "The city plans to use the internationally known Brooklyn Banks skate park as a staging area during the Brooklyn Bridge reconstruction, which is starting later this year and will last until 2014, said Ralph Musolino, a district manager for the city Parks Dept."  The city plans to shutter the area beginning this Friday, January 15, and it will remain closed until 2014.

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