The East York Skatepark is a small community park, which has been made possible by Team EY and all the involvement of the skaters of East York and their supporters. With the help of many others, I’ve had been working on getting this park since 1998.  In 2005, after years of dealing with mega-city political changes and finally getting money from the city, the park was on its way and was completed spring 2007.
Jim Barnum (the designer), took input from EY skaters and created a park that provided the local skaters with the terrain they wanted.  Though the construction process, both Jim and Eric Meunier (who did all the smooth concrete work) worked with us to continually modify the design to ensure that the park was what the locals wanted.  Thanks so much to both of them!
The result is a street area bordering on plaza style and a tight figure 8 bowl that is 5’ high on one side 6’ on the other.  The street area consists of a Pier 7 manny pad, Commerce Court style multiple 3-sets, some larger sets, various rails and ledges, different sized hubbas, a long banked ledge
(“The Wave”) and two granite caped ledges: one down the double set and one over the grass gap.
This park is always busy with locals and has given new life to the area; bringing old school EY skaters out of retirement and breading plenty of new rippers who are just tearing the place up!
Recently, we organized a skatepark cleanup weekend, where all the locals came out to paint the whole park and do some concrete work; building a new wallride, cementing in a curb at the top of the steep bank and cementing in a polejam.   This skatepark has been about EY community involvement since day one and continues to be… I LOVE EY
The park is located in Stan Wadlow Park, on Cosburn Ave, just East of Woodbine Ave., so bring your board and forget your shirt – you know how we do.
Nick “Pep” Pierre