Albert Cyprys is a New Yorker who enjoys skateboarding through the crowded city streets of New York. While skateboarding through the five boroughs in New York City, Albert Cyprys is able to experience a whole new side of his city. He is able to visit places that traditional forms of transportation, like cabs and subways, will never see. During his travels around New York, Albert Cyprys is an active photographer and is able to get up close with people in the streets while on his skateboard.

Albert Cyprys finds skateboarding to be a quicker means of transportation than catching a cab or getting on the subway. Albert Cyprys is able to weave through the city streets and enjoys the freedom that comes with not being tied to a subway schedule. In New York, it can be difficult to find a cab at certain times of the day and night. Albert Cyprys does not have to deal with standing on the street corner waving his arm. He simply hops on his skateboard and heads off to his destination.

Through skateboarding, Albert Cyprys is able to interact with people that he normally would not have met. People are always interested in speaking with someone who is so clearly living life by their own rules. Albert Cyprys enjoys getting out and meeting people from all different cultures and walks of life. In his travels around New York City, Albert Cyprys has been able to visit many different neighborhoods and experience many different cultures while on his skateboard.

To Albert Cyprys, skateboarding is more than a means of transportation; it is a way of life. “I love the freedom that traveling by skateboard gives me. I get to go where I want, when I want and I am not dependent on buses or subways. I have never been stuck in traffic or on a subway car and I never will be,” he said. The freedom that comes from skateboarding through city streets is evident in every part of Albert Cyprys's life. He is never stuck in traffic or on a stalled subway train, he is always free to move about and get to his destination on his own time. Skateboarding symbolizes Albert Cyprys’s freedom from a world of schedules and traffic.