Hundreds of skateboarders who were banned from rolling through New York City in an annual race called the Broadway Bomb took to the streets anyway, despite a heavy police presence.
Police massed on Manhattan’s West Side Saturday in an attempt to deter nearly 2,000 skaters from defying a court order cancelling the 8-mile cruise down the Great White Way.
Officers played warnings over a loudspeaker and deployed orange nets to block intersections, but they also tolerated some groups of skateboarders who detoured around the barricades and rolled south.
As of mid-afternoon, no arrests were reported.
Last year, around 1,000 people rode longboards all the way to Wall Street from Morningside Heights.
But this year the city got a judge to issue an order blocking the event as unsafe.