Security Guidelines 2007

The Central Park Police have will be attached to the benches in reminded us not to allow any the baggage area next to the DJ Newsletter unattended bags at the Skate booth. An added benefit of locking Central Park Dance Skaters Association Circle, because of the very real up your backpack, is that it will July 2007 danger that unattended bags are stay in the place where you leave Vol. 13 Issue 1 vulnerable to being stolen. it instead of being shifted around to the bottom of the pile every time Events Schedule Things are fairly safe inside the someone searches for their bag. Ups & Downs Skate Circle, we are a close knit INDEPENDENCE DAY WEEKEND by Lezly Ziering community and we have devel - If you insist on keeping your oped a well deserved trust of one back-packs on the fence, please 6/30 SATURDAY Skating by its very nature is Then the downslide - a gradual impassioned devotees and local another, but you must remember do not hang the bag from the top DJ e fraught with ups and downs. diminishing in the flood of inlin - pols were gathered. Among the that there are many non-skaters of the fence - lock it to the bot - 7/01 SUNDAY I call to mind the meteoric rise ers, as the quad skate returned speakers were Congressman who come through the area and... tom of the fence - but please lock DJ Misbehaviour in popularity of inline skating to favor. The attendance at the Charles Baron, Councilwomen well, this is not a perfect world. up your bags. It is easy to see 7/04 WEDNESDAY that virtually eclipsed tradi - rinks was up - skating was on Sabrina Lewis and the articu - someone rummaging through tional quad skates some years the rise again. late Letitia James, the ardent The police recommend that you do DJ Jay Stewart your bag, but if they walk out of back. I saw it in my skate assemblyman Hakim Jeffries not bring valuables into the park. the Circle with it, no one will Then the crash - The Skate Key So, it might make sense to leave 7/07 SATURDAY classes, on the streets, streams who wasn’t going to take this notice until it is too late. closed, suddenly, shocking the your new digital cameras, video New DJ Jam of bladers making there way lying down - they all gave us skate community! Then we cams, palm pilots, cell phones, Small bags and women’s purses 7/08 SUNDAY through traffic, some in their hope - but I knew they were heard that Empire was going Blackberries, ipods, iphones, jewel - are particularly vulnerable. Try to DJ Julio work-a-day clothes, dressed to blowing smoke. to close; that venerable icon of ry and other expensive items at leave bags like that in a friend’s the nines with attaché case in roller skating. I was incredu - There were skaters who called on home; unless you intend to keep backpack that is locked to one of 7/14 SATURDAY hand, on their way to their lous; I started skating there in God, skaters who wept, skaters them in your possession at all the chains in the baggage area. In DJ Lynnee Denise jobs, shopping in stores, in the 1945; it was my every Saturday with creative but impossible times. This will be difficult if you an emergency, you might want to 7/15 SUNDAY rinks, the parks—everywhere! are skating, because we insist that speak to one of our skate guards activity from age 12 to 14. ideas - but the one who stole the DJ Big Bob - Birthday Week In Central Park the loop became skaters not try to dance in the about special security arrange - Empire - the birthplace of show with the best line of the the thing to do; I heard a skater Circle while wearing backpacks. ments inside the DJ booth. The 7/21 SATURDAY Roller Disco - closing? Skaters day was skater Kevon Johnson best protection is to get into the say to a friend, “Do you skate NO SKATING - Triathlon banded together and protested, who, on the subject of why skaters We recommend that you keep habit of always locking your bag. the Park?” - “Yeah, I do da loop.” your wallet and house keys on 7/22 SUNDAY rallied, petitioned, pleaded, retain their youth, advanced the your person at all times - invest in We hope that by taking these NO SKATING - Triathlon “You do da loop? - I do da loop - and cajoled. theory that “because we skate a small fanny pack or a belt bag to additional precautions, none of us let’s get down and do da loop.” counterclockwise, we go against I attended a Save Empire Rally wear around your waist. We also will suffer the loss of our property 7/28 SATURDAY Set it to music - Doodaloop, the clock - thereby reversing on the street in front of the request that each of you bring a this season. After all, we come here DJ Alchemy doodaloop, you doodaloop, time”. It didn’t save Empire - DJ Jay Stewart rocks the house rink, cordoned off by police small padlock and use it to lock to play and forget our worries. 7/29 SUNDAY I doodaloop, everybody but I’ll think twice about skating ©2007, Bob Nichols your backpack to the chains that barricades, a modest crowd of DJ Nick Johnson & DJ e doodaloop. clockwise ever again!! (Continued on page 2) The Central Park Skate Circle CPDSA Membership Application Date ___/___ Member # ______takes place every Saturday, Name______Sunday and major holiday in 2007 from April 8th through Address______October 28th. The music plays from 2:30pm to 6:30pm. City______State_____ Zip______

Home or Cell Phone Official CPDSA Contacts Lezly Ziering 212-777-3232 Work or Cell Phone Dr. Janis Brody Bob Nichols 212-246-1344 New On the Web www.CPDSA.org E-mail I Member I Renewal Your Body: E-mail [email protected] The Girls' Contribution: I $15 I $25 I $50 I $100 I Other Guide CPDSA Board of Directors Please cut out this membership application and mail it, along (St. Martin's Press) Lezly Ziering, Chairman with your contribution, to the CPDSA address below. You can get Bob Nichols additional applications and more information from Lezly Ziering at Janis' book is recommended by Publisher's Weekly, Gwen White the CPDSA Skate Circle, located mid-park at the foot of the bandshell. Jump Magazine, and Amazon's Top 10 Family List. Available on Amazon.com Daniel Guzman You can find us by entering Central Park at 72nd street and walking along Olmsted Way toward the center of the park. Just follow your Rebecca Guzman ears. Listen for our dance music. You can’t miss us. Duane Reid If you would like to contribute stories or photos Darryl Thomas for consideration in our next newsletter, Central Park Dance Skater s Association Mark Wolf 14 Washington Place, #11F please contact: [email protected] Vera Sinnreich Energy around the world...UK skaters meet the CPDSA , NY 10003 John Waters (212) 777-3232 © 2007 Ed Carvallo’s Stride Zone “Ups & Downs” continued from page 1. The View from Skate rs Road Then came the news about the from the ashes of the old Roxy. by Bob Nichols Roxy—that world famous mecca The one haven for skaters of all This has been a difficult year for found the place and to the man - of Roller Disco that hosted skating in New York. The Roxy agement, who so graciously invited persuasions that seems to keep , Midler, Jagger and a in and Empire in us into their theater; which made on keepin’ on through good times host of celebrities from the worlds Brooklyn both closed in the past it very difficult for us to just walk and bad, through all the changes of music, theater, dance and several months, Skate Key, in the away from the place when the in skate fashions, whether rinks sports—was closing. The Roxy, Bronx, shut its doors not long ago Roxy reopened in mid May. open or close, in spite of economic my home, where I taught skating and the huge rink in Montvale, crises or the ominous threat of Our love affair with the Roxy is a since 1994. That rink was packed New Jersey closed a few weeks terrorism, is the Skate Circle. We ago. Economics, we are told, do bit irrational. We’ve already said on Wednesday nights, and when our goodbyes and yet we keep seem to be the Eveready Bunny not allow for large spaces with the word went out that it was going back; it’s like a relationship, of the Skate World. hardwood floors in a city as closing, it got more crowded still - vibrant and impatient as New where you have broken up and at 10:30 you could see a solid But even the Skate Circle has to York; a space big enough for a know that it is never going to wall of brown skates coming make it’s nut. Like Big Daddy skating rink can make more work, but you keep on meeting “one more time.” You know you down the floor sweeping the Roxy says - it may be free - but it ain’t money as something else. are just prolonging the pain, but regulars before them. It was a cheap. I do want to thank the tidal wave - great for surfing but The Roxy closed just before somehow there you are skating at skaters who always come through Thanksgiving and then opened the wonderful crazy Roxy with its a little too crowded for serious for us - who understand that it again a couple of months later; wood floor and expert skaters skating. The final Wednesday costs a lot to keep the CPDSA One day, Zoe will grow up to skate like her dad, Ricky Mujica then it closed again in March to spurring you to dance that much skate night saw over 1,000 solvent - you know who you are. much publicity, angst, and not a further out over the edge...and The CPDSA skates down Broadway at New York’s first Dance Parade © 2007 DJ Julio skaters pass through those Without you we would not be out few tears. We were told that the you can’t stop yourself from hallowed portals. here, still. But it always blows building was slated for demoli - enjoying it while it is still there. © 2007 Ed Carvallo’s Stride Zone me away to see the number of tion. Then, in early May the club An extra plum was tossed to the Does this sound too much like a skaters who come week after opened once more as “Club 51 5.” NY skate world, an even more soap opera? Rinks come and go. A week and never put their hand in To the hardcore Roxy skate group final Friday skate night, for my who longed for their precious whole string of skate clubs: their pocket to kick in their birthday, the owner said. Some Wednesday night skate, it is a Metropolis, The Red Parrot, share. They’ll go to a rink and birthday present - “For your miracle; even though we know it Waverly, Sweet Rubys, Busbys, shell out $15 or $20 for one birthday - I’m closing down the will not be there for long. Parkside...have come and gone evening of skating, yet not throw since 1980. At one time in the early only remaining indoor rink in down the 15 bucks for a one year Last November, when the Roxy 80’s the Roxy and Metropolis both NYC”. Why thank you sir, I’m membership, to keep the Skate first closed its doors, Julio led closed and there were no rinks underwhelmed!! Circle going. Our staff is all the Roxy Skaters over to the left in Manhattan. That was venerable Empire Roller rink in when I learned my way around Skaters wept, reminisced, ranted, volunteers, no one of us takes Brooklyn for a Wednesday night Central Park and started spend - mourned. Where are we going to home a paycheck. Our DJs - skate. Empire was not conve - ing time on the Skaters Road . skate - Montvale is closing next worth a few hundred per outing? niently located for many of us month. What are we to do? How You bet!! They give of their time and there were some problems The Skate Circle is a major part can this be happening? gratis - a labor of love! Are there with the floor, but as the weather of skating in New York and it is people who can’t afford more grew colder, we were grateful for there because we kept it going. Rather quickly than to throw a dollar into the the opportunity to skate indoors. In 1995 a zealous new mayoral opened for skating - but after a pot? Possibly so, and you I thank Then it was announced that administration decided to clean up lukewarm opening night, nobody Central Park and the skaters were with all my heart for that hard Empire was going to close, too. Phil Rosenberg skates with his daughter Solana on Father’s Day came!! Too small! It’s the floor. targeted as part of the cleanup. won buck. Kevon Johnson, Gwen White, They wanted to get rid of us, but © 2007 DJ Julio It’s not wood. No rental skates. So they got brown skates, still There are about 60 skating days Sam Mendscole, Michele Mcphun, we didn’t want to go. We were Adrienne Johnson and Sabrina stubborn, we formed the CPDSA LEZ LY SKATE SCHOOL nobody came. in our season - if you had to pay Lewis led an effort to keep and we kept on skating. We had a NY’s #1 Inline & Traditional Rollerskate Specialists a half a buck a pop for that - The Roxy reopened as Club 515 - Empire open, they had a website friend build our first FM transmit - would it be a fabulous deal? You • We have taught over 10,000 skaters since 1979 HURRAH! and an e-mail campaign pleading ter so that we could all skate to • Private & semi-private classes by appointment - know it!! OK - don’t toss in that to the Brooklyn borough President the same music, we used radio all levels A modest crowd showed for open - $30 - give us $25 for a years for help. They staged several walkmen and kept the Skate ing night - somewhat less the fol - membership and we’ll throw in a protest demonstrations that got Circle rolling. We stayed together, OUTDOOR INDOOR lowing week, and attendance has free T-shirt of your choice to boot. the attention of the media. held out and kept on skating. beginner classes DANCE SKATING beginner classes I think that’s the best deal in Despite the efforts of the skating $65.00 Intermediate/ been hovering around fair ever Today, we continue skating in the $65.00 town. Name one better - and community, the legendary Empire for 4 week course Advanced since. for 4 week course Rollerdrome closed its doors in park. Our little group is a tourist 2 weeks at Fridays at don’t tell me - “Yeah, I take your Wednesdays at attraction—an odd ecstatic little Mercer Playground 6:00pm - $20 Webster Hall, never seen as 60 days of skating to the best late April of this year. 6:30pm dance party woven into the fabric & 2 weeks in at the Roxy a viable venue by the skate at the Roxy DJs the Big Apple has to offer When the Roxy closed for the of New York weekends. What Central Park community at large, even though and I give you bupkis.” second time, in early March, a holds us together is a love of the owners tried to make it We sell skates at super rates - Traditional skate specialists group of concerned Roxy Skaters skating and a steely determina - That’s a down - let’s take it up a Skates - Wheels - Bearings - Riedell - Snyder - Suregrip - Bones - Kryptos attractive as they could for us, found a venue where we could tion not to let it die. notch!! (212) 777-3232 Visit us on the web: www.skateguru.com could not survive as a skating skate: at Webster Hall. We were Kevin and Magali take a spin at the 1st annual Dance Parade The Skate Circle Lives! space once 515 was resurrected very grateful to the skater who © 2007 Darryl Thomas