An infamous green skateboarding bench has gone missing again after skaters lifted it from NYC s Tompkins Square Park, and moved it to Philadelphia s Cecil B. Moore Station Plaza.
A 300-pound, curved metal bench that has become a piece of skateboarding history was stolen last month from New York City's Tompkins Square. A group of Philadelphia skateboarders took credit for driving up in a U-Haul and bringing the bench back down I-95. For the past week or so, it had been at Cecil B. Moore Station Plaza near Temple University. Now it's gone again after Temple Police reportedly gave it a person who provided them with evidence of ownership of the bench.
A group of skateboarders from Philadelphia stole a green bench from New York City's Tompkins Square last month, bringing a piece of skating lore to the City of Brotherly Love. The 300-pound, curved bench, one of just two that originated in Santa Ana, California in the late 1990s, is now at Cecil B. Moore Station Plaza near Temple University after it was driven to Philly in a U-Haul. The bench was made famous by pro skaters Anthony Van Engelen and Jason Dill, who used it in a pair of 2003 skate videos and more recently in a video from the company they own.