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From the Gothamist Newsmap: Serious Trauma on Montague St & Hicks St Brooklyn, Stabbing at W 28th St & Broadway Manhattan, C.O. Incident at 45 Rd & Vernon Blvd Queens.
The body of the 16-year-old girl who disappeared last Friday while swimming at Rockaway Beach was found under the Marine Parkway-Gil Hodges Memorial Bridge yesterday, and positively identified today. The death was ruled an “accidental drowning."
The two founders of a spa in Mexico that attracts a lot of celebrities are battling it out in a not-so-pretty court case in Manhattan.
Fans of empty pools and noise rock pioneers, take note: Sonic Youth will play the (probably, maybe) last concert ever at McCarren Park Pool (act now and buy pre-sale tickets before they're open to the public tomorrow).
Upon the release of the second X-Files movie, David Duchovny will be in town filming his television show, Californication, in Tompkins Square Park this Friday.
Part of the Vallone family gets immortalized in a mural by graffiti artists. Graffiti-hating council member Peter Vallone, Jr. was not included.
As if the Greenpoint/Williamsburg border weren't already blurred enough, now there are subdivisions of Greenpoint. Do you live in South Vinyl Siding, or are you living it up in Sewagetown?

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By Jen Carlson in Miscellaneous on July 24, 2008 6:20 PM

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woodendesigner

The renovation plans for the new pool include a concert area as well. Apparently the shows have been such a big hit that a stage area is part of the plan now. The place is going to definitely be more upscale now but also have a lot more to offer and utilize the existing buildings as well. It looks like a pretty cool plan.

neckbeard

is there any sort of petition or anything to keep McCarren Pool from being turned back into a real pool/selling point for luxury condos.

while I'd be stoked for all of the local kids in the neighborhood to have a pool to swim in, i think its actually a great place to see shows, and will turn into a yuppie mating grounds.