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Everyone is abuzz about the new renderings of McCarren Park Pool unveiled at the CB1 meeting last night, except they look exactly the same as the ones unveiled a year ago! Okay, close your eyes and picture McCarren Park Pool...now add some aquamarine-toned blue water courtesy of your mind's Photoshop, and that's pretty much what it's going to look like (for the imaginationally challenged, this is also represented in the rendering above).
NY1 has some new details from the meeting, however, reporting back that "the pool will not be as large as the original. Instead, it will be reconfigured to a u-shaped design accommodating 2,500 people. The middle will be a beach area in the summer and turn into an ice staking rink in the winter. Outdoor pavilions will be added on site to serve as changing stations," and the main buildings will house both a gym and a recreational/community center. A beach volleyball court and a rooftop cafe (atop the Landmark) are also a possibility—but don't bust out the sunscreen just yet, you won't be able to dip your feet in the water until at least 2011.
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let be the first to say: Ew that's gonna be one disgusting smelly pool.
I was thinking the same thing! That is going to be one disgusting pool if it fits 2500 people. If you think Jones Beach field4 gets nasty, imagine an enclosed pool fitting 2500. NASTY!
I was hoping the plan to develop Mccarren pool would be scrapped and we'd get one more year of pool parties. Since you know, we're in a recession and our state is about to go bankrupt.
Yeah QM, my thoughts exactly.
2500 smelly hipsters. What a thought.
Swimming in smelly hipster pee- water. Ew!
You can only swim! Swimming in a pool is for kids. You can't have a concert!
I was hoping to spend my summer accidentally ingesting other peoples' urine and getting plantars warts on my feet. My prayers have been answered.
I notice a troubling lack of Ween.
Hahaha. Exactly! What a waste. No idea what I'm going to do on Sundays this summer. Bowling, anyone?
I forsee huge illegal immigrant volleyball picnics turning into huge illegal immigrant water polo picnics.
The only illegal immigrants in Williamsburg are the hipsters!
"The only illegal immigrants in Williamsburg are the hipsters!"
A. McCarren Park isn't in Williamsburg.
B. Clearly you've never been there.
A: I never said McCarren was in Wburg, did I? Do poorly in reading comprehension on the SAT, little guy?
B: Clearly I've been to McCarren Park when you were still living in the suburbs, or that small town to which you should return.
I forsee huge illegal immigrant volleyball picnics turning into huge illegal immigrant water polo picnics.
Since those pictures of Michael Phelps sucking on a bong came out, I bet a lot of hipsters have been practicing their "underwater breathing".
You people are out of your goddamn minds. It's a pool! It'll be nice! You won't have to schlep down to Red Hook or wherever now to swim in the summer! People are way too concerned about cleanliness. The Red Hook pool has always been just fine. And they dose those pools with so much chlorine that it kills whatever is in there that could hurt you. I swear, it's like the people who won't drink NYC tap water. This is tap water FROM AMERICA. People in third-world countries would KILL for our water. (Note: They would not really kill.) Also, I hear that NYC supposedly has the No. 2 best-tasting tap water in the U.S.
I, for one, am happy that McCarren Park Pool is being turned back into a pool. I went to a lot of concerts there and had a great time, but the place should be used as something the whole community can get behind and enjoy, including Polish Greenpoint residents, Mexican families (they are NOT "illegal immigrants," you racist), and, yes, even the much-maligned but still with (surprise!) a right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness hipster.
Yay for a pool! Anyone who doesn't like it is getting thrown in the deep end.
Yawn. I liked it better when that area was a blighted mess. It kept the riff raff out...
Who wants to swim in a public pool?
I don't see what the benefit of turning this back into a pool benefits the community. With the economy in the state it is in, it would benefit local businesses to continue the pool parties which would bring people into the neighborhood who wouldn't normally be there.