A “FLOATING POOL” carved into a commercial barge will dock in Brooklyn in two weeks, Parks Department officials said. The so-called “Floating Pool Lady” will dock at Pier 2 near Brooklyn Bridge Park, ...
As recently as the 1940s, New Yorkers swam in floating pools in the Hudson and East rivers. A safer alternative to swimming directly in the river, the municipal baths kept residents cool in hot summer ...
A plan for a floating swimming pool in New York City’s waterways moved one step closer to reality Friday after Gov. Kathy Hochul announced her support — and $12 million in public funding — for the ...
Some 14 years after we first reported on it – and following multiple challenges and false starts – the ambitious plan to create a self-filtering floating public pool in a New York City river is now ...