Presenting the New McCarren Pool
[nggallery id=”28751″ template=galleryview] All things McCarren were revealed at Tuesday night’s Community Board 1 meeting. Architects from Rogers Marvel and Brooklyn Parks Commissioner Julius Spiegel presented renderings (above) and divulged details, many of which were documented in an email from Mikki Halpin of the group PoolAid and posted on Gowanus Lounge. A few highlights: -…
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All things McCarren were revealed at Tuesday night’s Community Board 1 meeting. Architects from Rogers Marvel and Brooklyn Parks Commissioner Julius Spiegel presented renderings (above) and divulged details, many of which were documented in an email from Mikki Halpin of the group PoolAid and posted on Gowanus Lounge. A few highlights:
– The $50 million in funding is secure
– Pool should be open in two years
– Pool should hold 2,500 people (that’s a lot of pee!)
– Main building will house gym and rec center
– Cabanas will be built as changing rooms
– No diving pool; volleyball court instead
– Bathrooms to be built at end if money remains
Sounds good to us.
The New McCarren Pool Updated & Revealed [Gowanus Lounge]
New McCarren Park Pool Images! [Curbed]
Work Begins at McCarren Park Pool [Brownstoner]
LPC Votes: McCarren Approved, Riverside Postponed [Brownstoner]
$50 Million McCarren Makeover Gaining Momentum [Brownstoner]
prediction – it won’t be done two years from now
Pools are good, but my problem is that if it’s like the rest of the city pools, it won’t open until July and will close before Labor Day. So you’re only getting 2 months of use out of a huge space. I didn’t check the offering; will there be winter skating at least?
Also, as a former lifeguard, I’d hate to be responsible for that many people. I think there’s gonna be a lot of missing teeth and cracked skulls…
err …I meant not into white girls.
[sound of heart breaking]
No, not into white people myself.
dittoburg, got a fetish for those nice blonde poles ??????
Unless your skin is somehow not waterproof I wouldn’t worry yllbdll
I remember the days of floating turds and underwater humping at Red Hook Pool, but it hasn’t been like that for quite a while. They police that place very strictly, and they mean it when they make this announcement on the loudspeaker every twenty minutes:
“No male to female contact. No male to male contact. No female to female contact. Keep your hands, and the love, to yourself!”
And maybe one benefit of the economic collapse will be that it becomes easier to fill lifeguard positions. For the last several years, the Parks Department has been bringing them in from Poland and Ireland, since local kids either didn’t know how to swim, or would rather do an internship at Lehman Brothers.
This will challenge the Gowanus’ top spot for Brooklyn’s #1 cesspool. The pee will only be a small component of the extraordinary infestation.