{"id":802,"date":"2006-03-13T00:39:22","date_gmt":"2006-03-13T08:39:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/03\/taking_up_skateboarding_after_40_wasnt_so_much_a_problem_as_conceiving_of_it_as_gliding.html"},"modified":"2006-03-13T00:39:22","modified_gmt":"2006-03-13T08:39:22","slug":"taking_up_skate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/03\/taking_up_skate.html","title":{"rendered":"Taking Up Skateboarding After 40 Wasn’t So Much A Problem As Conceiving Of It As “Gliding”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Because someone has to be to blame other than me<\/a>:<\/p>\n

The piles of corned beef may be gone and the matzo soup dried up, but that doesn’t mean the 2nd Avenue Deli can escape kvetching.<\/p>\n

A 45-year-old skateboarder is going after the venerable East Village restaurant, which closed shop in January, and its ex-landlord in a lawsuit filed over her December 2004 spill on the sidewalk in front of the kosher deli.<\/p>\n

Julie Ashcraft, a Manhattanite who only recently picked up the hobby, says she was slowly gliding when she hit a break in the pavement and took a nasty fall, shattering her right wrist.<\/p>\n

“I fell super-fast,” said Ashcraft, who had to get a titanium plate in her wrist with 10 screws. “Once the pain hit, it was horrible . . . I was so afraid I wasn’t going to be able to write again.”<\/p>\n

Ashcraft, who works defending tenants facing eviction in Housing Court, filed suit Feb. 24 in Manhattan. She accuses Clearwater Associates, the deli’s landlord, of negligence for not maintaining the sidewalk.<\/p>\n

The suit also names the 2nd Avenue Deli, which closed down after a rent hike. The deli’s owner, Jack Lebewohl, has hinted he may reopen elsewhere.<\/p>\n

Ashcraft’s lawyer, Michael Lamonsoff, said that in New York, property owners — not renters or the city — are responsible for maintaining the sidewalk. But the deli is named in the suit, he said, in case it caused the sidewalk damage.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And when you’re going after deep pockets full of corned beef, don’t forget to pull that big, dog-eared Sept. 11 card — a sure-fire way to get any jury on your side:<\/p>\n

Ashcraft said she took up skateboarding as a distraction after the Sept. 11 attacks but, except for a brief spell during the transit strike, has given up her hobby.<\/p>\n

Although she never learned any tricks, she said she used to love skateboarding around the city and to work.<\/p>\n

“Now I’m terrified. I’ve even had nightmares about it,” she said. “And I used to dream about gliding to work.”<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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