Granite to Grates: Milan’s Panorama Crew Brings Its Plaza to New York

A WhatsApp thread and months of watching the same Italian music videos led Milan’s Panorama crew to spend a couple of days in New York with Jenkem’s cameras.

A WhatsApp thread does not typically end with a camera crew booking flights, but that is roughly what happened between Jenkem Magazine and Milan’s Panorama crew this year. After months of back and forth, plus what Jenkem describes as a handful of slow mornings spent watching Italian music videos together, the two sides settled on something simple: put two filmers on a plane, trail a few of the crew’s regulars around New York for a couple of days, and cut the footage into something without much of a script.

The result, New York Through the Eyes of Milan’s Panorama Crew, landed on Jenkem’s channel on August 24, 2026. Ben Komins and Ian Michna shot it, Jeff Jones edited it, and it followed crew founder Luka, better known as Spezzatura, along with what Jenkem called “some crew staples,” a phrase that stopped short of naming exactly who made the trip. What is confirmed is the timing: the visit came shortly after Panorama’s fourth video dropped in May, giving Jenkem’s cameras a crew riding high off a project that had already made the rounds of the skate press.

It also is not the first time Jenkem has turned its attention to Milan’s skate scene. In 2024, the magazine put together a mix built around Rat Ratz’s own late night plaza playlist, crediting Vince Palmer, Nils Matijas, and Rachid Doubiani as the skaters holding the wider group together. The Panorama trip extends that relationship from a shared mix to a shared production credit, and it is a familiar format for Jenkem regardless: the magazine’s “Hanging Out With” tag has followed skaters from a Queens bocce court to the hills outside Riverside, California, usually built around the same loose premise of company over interview. Applying that treatment to a crew from another continent, one whose videos are shot almost entirely around a single train station plaza three thousand miles away, was a smaller leap than it might sound.

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None of it happens without a train station. Milano Centrale, Milan’s central rail hub, has functioned as the city’s default skate spot for the better part of a decade, its long runs of waxed granite ledges turning an unglamorous transit plaza into what Quartersnacks has called one of the most skated spots anywhere on earth. The scene that formed around it did not arrive with sponsorship money or a shop team behind it. It arrived through a filmer named Alessio Brienza, known as Brisquit, who started shooting the skaters he found hanging around the plaza in 2019 with an old Canon camera, at a time when Milan had few filmers documenting its street skating at all.

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Those early sessions became Rat Ratz, a video series built around skaters including Vince Palmer, Nils Matijas, Niko Giovannoni, and Rachid Doubiani, most of whom, per the crew’s own account, were not originally from Milan at all but had moved there for work or school and found each other at the plaza. By the crew’s own description, Brisquit is from South Italy, Rachid grew up in Veneto, Vince is German, and Nils is Croatian, a mix that reflects how few of the skaters who built Milan’s current reputation actually grew up in the city. The series got its biggest push in spring 2021, when Bill Strobeck, the filmmaker behind several of Supreme’s video projects, came through Milan to shoot the crew for a video called “Stallion,” giving Rat Ratz its first real visibility outside Italy. It is in that same plaza, and out of that same circle, that Panorama began, alongside early scene figures like Vince Palmer and Jacopo Carozzi, who Jenkem itself credits with first putting Milan skateboarding on the wider industry’s radar.

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Luka picked up a camera in that same Rat Ratz orbit before starting a series of his own. Under the name Spezzatura, he had already filmed installments of Rat Ratz, including the crew’s “Nils & Vince” video, before launching Panorama as its own project built around a rotating cast of Milan skaters distinct from, if adjacent to, the Rat Ratz lineup. Where Rat Ratz has been described, including by outlets that have covered the crew’s own New York trips, as capturing the raw energy of plaza skating in something close to real time, Panorama has leaned more into the idea of a cast with recurring bits and running jokes, a distinction that matters more once the bonus Rawr videos enter the picture. Alongside the numbered Panorama videos, Spezzatura has also released shorter Rawr edits, a bonus format that has given individual crew members room to build out more of a standalone identity than the main series always allows.

By its second installment in 2023, Panorama already had one of the larger casts among Milan’s current crop of crew videos, crediting Starsky, Davide Holzknecht, a rider known as PhillyBoy, Jacopo Carozzi, Alex Borgatti, Tommaso Pizzolato, Andrea Riglietti, Nils Matijas, Andrea Carugo, Lukasz Kolasowski, Julian Fink, and several others. TransWorld SKATEboarding’s own coverage at the time joked that the marble scattered through the background shots looked lifted from one of Milan’s luxury fashion houses, a nod to the city’s reputation as a fashion capital as much as a skate destination.

The series has grown alongside its cast. Quartersnacks, reviewing Panorama’s fourth video, noted that the jump in quality between installments needed to be studied, pointing out that skaters who first appeared in earlier entries had visibly leveled up in the roughly two years since. That continuity, watching the same faces return video after video, has become part of the appeal. Quartersnacks has drawn a direct line between Panorama and the Love Park era Philadelphia videos of the early 2000s, arguing that both formats work by capturing not just the marquee spot but the surrounding routine, the adjacent skaters, and the sense of a full day rather than a highlight reel.

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Panorama’s fourth video went up in May 2026 under the tagline “yea this took some time,” a title that undersold how much ground it covered. Filmed and edited entirely by Spezzatura, it ran through Milano Centrale as well as spots in Paris and London, expanding the series’ geography beyond its home plaza for the first time. Its credited cast included Massimo Cristofoletti, Cionve, Starsky, Sengo Prevost, Luca Barattiero, Olli Lilja, Leonardo Bodelazzi, Ismael Bianca, Cheick Arcudi, Biagio Celentano, Andrea Carugo, Philly, Dan Fisher, Eustance, and Davide Holzknecht, with guest appearances from Brazilian pro Tiago Lemos, who rides for New Balance Numeric and Primitive Skateboarding, alongside Jack Ajani and a rider credited only as Ted.

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Coverage leaned heavily on how far the crew’s skating had come since the previous installment. TransWorld SKATEboarding highlighted a hardflip roughly twenty two minutes in as a standout moment, while Quartersnacks singled out Davide, Starsky, and Massimo by name for how much more powerful their skating had become. Coverage spread quickly beyond Milan’s own scene too, turning up in write-ups from Vague, Free Skate Magazine, and Pocket Skateboard Magazine, on top of the domestic Quartersnacks and TransWorld pieces, evidence that a crew still built almost entirely around one plaza had found an audience with no geographic limit of its own.

The guest appearances are worth pausing on, too. Tiago Lemos is not a Milan local; he is a Brazilian pro who rides for a major American footwear brand and a well known independent board company, the kind of rider who usually turns up in big budget video parts rather than a DIY European crew project shot and cut by one person. His cameo, alongside Jack Ajani and a rider credited only as Ted, points to how far Panorama’s reputation had traveled by the time its fourth video came out, pulling in outside talent the same way the series itself was about to travel outside Milan.

It was against that backdrop, a crew fresh off its most ambitious video yet, that the trip to New York took shape.

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What actually happened across those two days in New York is deliberately unglamorous, in keeping with Jenkem’s usual approach to this kind of coverage. There is no itinerary printed anywhere, no list of spots hit, just Komins and Michna’s cameras following the visiting Panorama crew members and Spezzatura around the city, the way Jenkem has filmed dozens of out of town guests before them, from touring pro teams to solo skaters passing through on their way somewhere else.

That looseness is the format’s whole appeal, and it is also why so few hard details survive the finished video. Jenkem’s own writeup does not specify which New York spots the crew skated, how many of Panorama’s regular cast made the trip beyond Spezzatura himself, or how long the visit actually ran beyond “a couple of days.” What is clear from both the video’s framing and its accompanying text is the tone: a visit built on friendship first, with skating functioning as the byproduct of two crews from different cities and different first languages finding enough common ground, largely over shared taste in music, to spend a few days together on camera. Jenkem filed the finished piece under its own “Hanging Out With” and “New York Skateboarding” tags, the same combination it uses for locally based subjects, extending the same treatment to a crew visiting from another country entirely.

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Six years ago, per Jenkem’s own accounting, most of the skate industry had little reason to know Milano Centrale by name. That has changed considerably, and Panorama’s New York trip is as much a symptom of that shift as it is a standalone story. Rat Ratz cracked open international attention for the plaza first; Panorama, Rawr, and whatever comes after them are proof the scene has enough depth to support more than one crew telling its own version of the same stretch of granite. Rat Ratz has made a similar leap in its own right: Quartersnacks noted in 2024 that the crew had begun spreading beyond its home plaza and into the plazas of Paris, London, and New York in its own recent releases, the same three cities Panorama’s fourth video and now Jenkem’s own New York footage have touched. Rat Ratz has its own New York chapter on record, too, having previously teamed up with the New York outlet Living Proof on a video documenting a visit to the city, a precedent that makes Panorama’s own trip feel less like a one-off and more like the next stop on a route Milan’s skaters have already started to wear in.

Locally, that depth has started showing up in more than video views. Pleasures Skateboards, a Milan based board brand that has drawn several riders from the same Centrale circle since 2018, has described Panorama as documentation of a real scene and a real generation of skaters rather than simply a marketing vehicle, and has continued building its own catalog alongside the series’ releases.

Whether Panorama’s next video returns exclusively to Milan or keeps chasing the kind of travel featured in its fourth installment, and now in Jenkem’s own footage, remains an open question. What the New York trip confirmed is more modest but harder to fake: a crew that started as a smaller, filmer driven offshoot of a bigger scene now has enough of a following, and enough of its own identity, to get flown out and followed around by an outlet on the other side of the Atlantic simply because two group chats decided it was worth doing.

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