David Linton
Retired Professor, Upper West Side (pictured above)
What are those cards?
I’ve sewed on 18 of my old season passes. I’ve been coming to the rink about 45 times a season for 26 years. So, I’m kind of hard-core. The vest’s a conversation starter — that’s why I wear it. I get into these lovely conversations with tourists who like me because I’m a funky skater. I used to be a roller skater at Roxy and Empire.
What do you mean by “funky”?
Lots of low-swivel stuff.
What do you do when you’re not skating?
At Marymount Manhattan College, I used to teach a course on the social construction of menstruation. It was an elective. It was very popular. It got known as “The Period Class.” The subject has stayed my focus. I’m on the board of the Society for Menstrual Cycle Research — the only man there. I helped create the world’s first menstrual poetry slam. It’s called “The Red Moon Howl.”
Emmie Kate Vaughn
Photographer–dance teacher, Granbury, Texas
Eugene Kim
Watch salesman, Midtown
Ratna Anderson
Housewife, Bay Ridge
Who are you here with?
My husband. We met at the rink in 2009. He was living in Philly and coming here weekly just to skate. We were both season-pass holders. We love to dress up. He thinks when we dress up nice, we skate better. I agree.
Maneekarn Thangkum
College student, New Smyrna Beach, Florida
Rico Williams
Real-estate executive, Upper East Side
What brings you here today?
My wife and a friend of hers who was in town — she’d always wanted to see the tree. I wasn’t going to join because of my knees and because I figured I’d rather be at home watching Premier League soccer. But I had fun. And now I’m considering a knee replacement.
Joe LaForgia
UPS maintenance worker, Country Club
Luke Fortun
Third-grader, Lower East Side
Lucy Cosser
Sixth-grader, Katy, Texas
Kyla Saleem
Twelfth-grader, Easton, Pennsylvania
Oliver Fortun
Second-grader, Stuyvesant Town
Nuri Raheem
Twelfth-grader, Newark, New Jersey
Gail Kennedy
Artist, Tribeca
There are likely not a ton of Tribeca artists skating here today.
My work can be really insular, and this place feels like a mini-U.N. Last week, I met people from Boston. Today, I met a woman from England. Last season, I met someone from Estonia and I was like, “Where the heck is Estonia? I’ll have to go check it out!”
Mariana Escobar
College student, Chappaqua
Paul Anderson
Auto-shop manager, Bay Ridge
Eleanor Mallon
Writer, Dubai, UAE
Jamie Tracy
Assistant project manager, Annapolis, Maryland
Hasanali David Walji
Surgeon, Royal Leamington Spa, England
What brings you to America?
Well, the pandemic was horrific for health-care workers. And so when New York reopened, I thought, I want to go somewhere unapologetically exciting.
Tara Mallon
PR director, Dubai, UAE
Emmie Kate Vaughn
Photographer–dance teacher, Granbury, Texas
Eugene Kim
Watch salesman, Midtown
Ratna Anderson
Housewife, Bay Ridge
Who are you here with?
My husband. We met at the rink in 2009. He was living in Philly and coming here weekly just to skate. We were both season-pass holders. We love to dress up. He thinks when we dress up nice, we skate better. I agree.
Maneekarn Thangkum
College student, New Smyrna Beach, Florida
Rico Williams
Real-estate executive, Upper East Side
What brings you here today?
My wife and a friend of hers who was in town — she’d always wanted to see the tree. I wasn’t going to join because of my knees and because I figured I’d rather be at home watching Premier League soccer. But I had fun. And now I’m considering a knee replacement.
Joe LaForgia
UPS maintenance worker, Country Club
Luke Fortun
Third-grader, Lower East Side
Lucy Cosser
Sixth-grader, Katy, Texas
Kyla Saleem
Twelfth-grader, Easton, Pennsylvania
Oliver Fortun
Second-grader, Stuyvesant Town
Nuri Raheem
Twelfth-grader, Newark, New Jersey
Gail Kennedy
Artist, Tribeca
There are likely not a ton of Tribeca artists skating here today.
My work can be really insular, and this place feels like a mini-U.N. Last week, I met people from Boston. Today, I met a woman from England. Last season, I met someone from Estonia and I was like, “Where the heck is Estonia? I’ll have to go check it out!”
Mariana Escobar
College student, Chappaqua
Paul Anderson
Auto-shop manager, Bay Ridge
Eleanor Mallon
Writer, Dubai, UAE
Jamie Tracy
Assistant project manager, Annapolis, Maryland
Hasanali David Walji
Surgeon, Royal Leamington Spa, England
What brings you to America?
Well, the pandemic was horrific for health-care workers. And so when New York reopened, I thought, I want to go somewhere unapologetically exciting.
Tara Mallon
PR director, Dubai, UAE
More From This Series
- The Look Book Goes to the Best Baguette in New York Competition
- The Look Book Goes to a New York Rangers Game
- The Look Book Goes to Zibby Owens’s Book Party
