{"id":320631,"date":"2026-08-13T19:48:23","date_gmt":"2026-08-13T19:48:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/320631\/"},"modified":"2026-08-13T19:48:23","modified_gmt":"2026-08-13T19:48:23","slug":"ev-grieve-a-come-to-jesus-moment-on-the-tf-at-tompkins-square-park","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/320631\/","title":{"rendered":"EV Grieve: A come-to-Jesus moment on the TF at Tompkins Square Park"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Photos and reporting by Stacie Joy\u00a0<\/p>\n

Written by EVG\u00a0<\/p>\n

A month after Hell Ride<\/a> departed the Tompkins Square Park TF, its successor has arrived from a higher authority.\u00a0Last month, the Hell Ride ramp<\/a> disappeared from the Tompkins Square Park skateboard area after a relatively brief run. We were told that the Sunday field hockey players had lodged a complaint about the installation.\u00a0<\/p>\n

At the time, an EVG reader suggested that perhaps the ramp would have been OK without the “Hell.”\u00a0<\/p>\n

And so yesterday, a group of skaters unveiled something bigger: Holy Ride.<\/p>\n

“These guys have no respect for Christ,” one resident told us.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Another observer had a different take: He thought Jesus would approve.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, one woman had a more practical question: Why doesn’t Jesus have a neck?\u00a0<\/p>\n

We don’t have an answer for that one.\u00a0<\/p>\n

By late afternoon, Holy Ride was in place, and skaters were already putting it to use.<\/p>\n

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How long Holy Ride remains with us is in the hands of a higher power.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Photos and reporting by Stacie Joy\u00a0 Written by EVG\u00a0 A month after Hell Ride departed the Tompkins Square…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":320632,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[9,11,10],"class_list":["post-320631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=320631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/320631\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/320632"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=320631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=320631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=320631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}