'Broadway Bomb' Skateboard Race Halted By Court

Court Halts Massive Skateboard Race
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NEW YORK -- The city has put the brakes on a massive skateboard race that was slated to take over Broadway on Saturday.

The "Broadway Bomb" planned to send nearly 2,000 longboarders zipping 8 miles down Broadway from 116th Street to Bowling Green Saturday at noon, which the city feared would snarl traffic and endanger both the skateboarders and pedestrians.

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