“It sure would be nice to get over a Manhattan traffic jam with one big leap on a skateboard,” Mark Ulriksen says about his cover for this week’s issue. “I live in San Francisco, a few blocks from a skateboard park (though I haven’t been on a skateboard in many, many years). One thing my city has in common with New York is congested streets. But everything in New York is on a much bigger scale, especially during those blisteringly hot summer days.”