Christopher Johnson

Behavior

Skateboard mafia

The local skateboard mafia--twenty or so boys ranging in age from eight to fifteen, I'd guess--has taken over the empty planters outside the glossy new Richard Meier building on Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn. No one from the building chases them away, or appears to pay the slightest attention to them. The boys are very polite and make every effort to accommodate passersby, but what a comedown for this much-ballyhooed luxury building!

1 Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn NY 11238