Best places for rollerblade in New York?

Central Park is a bit obvious, I'm afraid, and it won't get anyone 10 points :P Any other places in NYC or around ?

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1. Ok you asked for it :) The following are places to skate in New York City: Manhattan South (Hudson River Park, Downtown, Greenwich Village, and Midtown)----> http://www.skatecity.com/nyc/where/manhattans.html#Downtown Manhattan North (Riverside Park, Upper West Side and Morningside Heights, Upper East Side and East Harlem, Harlem, Inwood and Washington Heights)-----> http://www.skatecity.com/nyc/where/manhattann.html East River Islands (Roosevelt Island, Wards Island and Randalls Island)---> http://www.skatecity.com/nyc/where/eastriver.html Brooklyn (Brooklyn Heights, Park Slope, Prospect Park, Crown Heights, Bay Ridge and Bath Beach, and Marine Park)----> http://www.skatecity.com/nyc/where/brooklyn.html Queens (Northwest Queens, Corona and Flushing, Northeast Queens, Central Queens and Rockaway)----> http://www.skatecity.com/nyc/where/queens.html The Bronx (Mullaly Park)----> http://www.skatecity.com/nyc/where/parks.html#Mullaly Have fun!
2. Obviously the other guy should get the 10 points. I wonder why you are afraid of Central Park? It is the safest police precinct in NYC!! Unless you are planning on skating at 2am, then the other places mentioned are not particularly safe either.
3. hmm new york eh!
4. I'm a novice rollerblader too, and I'm ALSO afraid to "blade" in Central Park. Obviously, there's too many people and too many UneVEn surfaces. There's a stretch of beautifully surfaced path from 23rd Street (outside of Chelsea Piers) that runs all the way down to Battery Park City. You don't have to worry about cars since it's an "unbroken" continuous pathway. (Thank goodness the environmentalists sued for public access rights to both the Hudson and East Rivers.) Anyway, nice benches are plentiful for rest stops (drink of water, sunblock, photos) and any re-adjustment to your rollerblades. Nice people, children, dogs walk and jog along. And of course, there are rollerbladers and bikers at respectful distances. The road is wide and long enough so that you never feel crowded. You will glide pass a miniaure golf course, outdoor trampoline school, a public kids' education area (fishing, drawing, etc.). Also, many structural things (like fences and poles) to grab or hold on to (not that you'd need to do THAT). The black road surface is some kind of glass/rubber polymer. It is ideal for novice rollerbladers. I LOVE it for its smoothness AND its "flexibilty" in "holding" the wheels. I believe that the material absorbs heat from the sun and "softens". In less than 30 minutes, your blades will take you to Stuyvesant H.S. building (where there's a pedestrian bridge spanning across the Westside highway). You are almost at the North Cove (where J-24s are lined up) of Battery Park City. You can continue blading on the sandstone surface, pass Winter Garden (shops/restaurants/BATHROOMS), through the Esplanade, all the way to South Cove (only pilings, no boats) where the Japanese Garden is located. If you wish, continue farther south through Wagner Park (food/bathrooms) all the way to Battery Park (crowded with tourists though). I always have a good time by the Hudson. I highly recommend it, and you won't even know that it's me when I glide by you one day. Just smile at all fellow rollerbladers. (Remember that it's Lower Manhattanites' secret paradise. Shhhhh...) http://www.batteryparkcity.org/index.php4?page=parks