Video: How To Slip N' Slide On The Streets Of New York

New York native Emmanuel Abreu (aka DJBoy) filmed some locals in Washington Heights cooling down on July 22nd, when temperatures reached 104 degrees. Their method: taking running dives onto soaked trash bags on the street. Check it out in this gorgeous video:

Abreu told DNA Info, “I've been wanting to do a dedication to the summer in the Heights for a really long time. I always imagined shooting a movie in the Heights. This is just a teaser of what's to come from me.”

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By Jen Carlson in Arts & Entertainment on August 18, 2011 2:57 PM

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✔Official Protester

thanks for all the comments guys.
I did this as a dedication to my neighborhood and the ways that we as kids, young men/women enjoy our summer.
-Dj Boy

Led Black

Check out the link below to the pictures that first ran with this video when it first appeared on the Uptown Collective last week.

http://uptowncollective.com/20...

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openheads

""How To Slip N' Slide On The Streets Of New York"

Garbage juice?

Steven L.A. Mura

I gotta say, it's a really great video. Makes me want to be there and experience it.

Gwinny

Nice. A beautifully-shot video dedicated to the waste of 1000 gallons per minute from an illegally-opened hydrant.

Kari

Wasteful, yes. But that heatwave sucked, and this looks fun as hell.

You can apparently ask your local fire dept to open a hydrant and install a spray cap, and then it's legal.

Gwinny

yeah, I know. We had a spray cap installed on the hydrant on our block... it lasted all of 5 minutes before someone pried it off.

Sara G

And aren't the streets/ground/black top usually 10x hotter than just getting wet?

bubbleandsqueak

It sounds a little bit like you live on the internet and have never had any fun. That video shows joy and all you can think of are downsides.

Gwinny

Our co-op had to pay thousands to have our front foundation repaired because it got damaged by the hydrant in front of our building being open all last summer.

When this kind of joy literally hits you in the wallet (and when you actually care about the environment), it's hard not to consider the downsides.