Empire Skate Club NYCEmpire has a fun #GroupSkate planned for Sunday, May 31. We will be rolling the Bronx River Parkway during the hours when it is closed to traffic. Meet up is at the Westchester County Center in White Plains at 11 a.m., close to the Metro North station. We'll roll the parkway until about 1:30. Afterwards, some will do an extra skate up to the Kensico Dam and back. Details on the Empire calendar at
Empire has a massive-ly long #GroupSkate scheduled for Saturday. Its a six-boro skate. Yes, six. Because reaching Staten Island on the ground means rolling through our favorite parts of Jersey.
It's an estimated 55 miles (jeepers!) if you do the whole thing, starting from the Grand Army entrance to BK's Prospect Park at 9:45 a.m. (Sat, May 2) and rolling all the way to SI.
Plenty of opportunities to join up en route or bail out early. Let us know if you need contact info for the leader.
Ooooh, Empire's Big Apple Roll has posted their 2026 event graphic to their website.
Remember, the BAR #GroupSkate weekend is Jul 30-Aug 2 this year, or Jul 27-Aug 2 if you include the special edition weekly group skates in advance.
And we're off!
All three regular weekly #InlineSkating #GroupSkate events in the #NYC metro area are now rolling for 2026.
Monday night the We Skate NJ group rolled the shoreline on the west side of the Hudson.
The next night, Empire's Tuesday Night Skate went nuts and rolled to Yonkers (OMG!) and back.
And then the NYC Wednesday Night Skate officially launched their season, posting up a short one of about 12 miles to Central Park and back before the impending rain.
We've added three more out-of-town #GroupSkate weekends to the Empire website calendar: Philadelphia, Skate DC, and LA Big Avocado Roll.
Already done are the two Miami events. Houston is next week, then Atlanta kicks off the summer season, followed by DC Skate of the Union, Philly, Portland, Seattle, NYC BAR, Skate DC, and LA.
Still waiting for word on Boston, Chicago, Toronto and San Antonio's dates, but none of those will be earlier than mid August.
It's March 6, which means the start of April is less than 4 weeks away. That means official start of the #NYC Official Wednesday Night Skate #InlineSkating #GroupSkate and also inline #speedskating training on the #Brooklyn #ProspectPark loop. We can't wait.
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Hola, skaters!
The Empire Skate Club of New York has been #InlineSkating #NYC since 1997.
Our biggest, most organized activity every year is the Big Apple Roll, 4-5 days of group skating the first weekend of August, including the massive BAR Friday Night Skate
We also sponsor Tuesday Night Skate, NYC's oldest weekly #GroupSkate; sponsor an inline #speedskating team; and do weekend group skates.
Check out our website or socials for more. https://empireskate.org
It may be the depths of winter (which, what, it was about 50°F on Wednesday), but the NYC #GroupSkate folk are in full swing. We met up with members of the Winter Wednesday Night Skate (not the Official WNS) when they finished their roll, and they had a nice-sized group.
Looks like its 2 (TWO!) #NYC #GroupSkate's to the Dyker Heights neighborhood Christmas lights fantasia this week!
Empire's own Tuesday Night Skate rolls there TONIGHT, departs Manhattan Grand Army (Fifth@60th) at 8 p.m.
Then Wednesday is the aforementioned Winter Wednesday Night Skate, departing from Triona's on Third (at 17th) at 7 p.m. (An HOUR EARLY!)
It's a long roll there and back, but there's an R train station near-by in Bay Ridge for peeps who want to get home faster.
Tonight's Empire Holiday Spirit #GroupSkate has been postponed due to the rain. It will instead take place tomorrow, 12/11, starting from Triona's on Third Ave at 8 p.m.
Also in the holiday spirit, there is a non-Empire group skate Friday evening, meeting up 6:30 at the Columbus Circle entrance to Central Park. Theme is locations from the Home Alone 2 movie.