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Golconda Skate Park

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Kava Vasquez performs a varial flip at Golconda Skate Park Fat Kid Spot
Kava Vasquez performs a varial flip at Golconda Skate Park Fat Kid Spot

Golconda Skate Park, known as Fat Kid, is a public skate park in the Downtown Brooklyn/Fort Greene neighborhoods of Brooklyn, New York City, that originated as a DIY skate spot. Built under the Brooklyn Queens Expressway, the 18,000 square foot professionally built skate park was completed in 2016 and sits within Golconda Playground.

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Golconda Skate Park
Nassau Street, New York Brooklyn

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N 40.6977 ° E -73.9819 °
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Nassau Street 240
11201 New York, Brooklyn
New York, United States
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Kava Vasquez performs a varial flip at Golconda Skate Park Fat Kid Spot
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