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Schumer Saved The Pool Parties

Senator Schumer has saved the Brooklyn Pool Parties! We just received a press release announcing the news that will surely put a smile on disaffected hipster's faces borough-wide.

With help from the Open Space Alliance, NYS Parks, Parks Commissioner Benepe and other elected officials, they announced that the JellyNYC Pool Parties are returning to the Williamsburg Waterfront for another year (thank goodness they never paved the East River so we can still enjoy a nice backdrop). Schumer says, "They are a big part of why summers in NYC... Summer in Brooklyn without the free JELLY Pool Parties simply would not have been the same and I am beyond thrilled to see that they will return in 2010. I can’t wait to ride my bike this summer to the East River State Park to rock out at these concerts once again.” Maybe Schumer can work his magic powers on the Bedford Ave bike lane next.

The duo who started it all, Jelly co-founders Alexander Kane and Sarah Hooper, say: “We owe a tremendous debt of gratitude to all parties involved including OSA and NYS Parks, but especially to our great Senator Chuck Schumer, who went above and beyond to see the free shows continue for a fifth straight year." They're currently working on the 8 shows that will take place this summer.

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  • greeen

    how about park avenue middle ground concerts. I'd like to see how park ave residents would react to having a concert in their front yard. put outdoor concerts in a place where not everyone has to hear them.

  • Scott

    Now all thats left to do is spice up these parties and see how Schumer reacts. Poolside Pong is the perfect way to achieve that. Its the inflatable beer pong table for pool parties. Check it out at www.poolsidepong.com

  • verbal

    Vote Schumer out - he's a self-promoting do nothing hack.

  • Jonny

    Amen John!

    The Pool Parties at the pool were so much better. The waterfront is a nice backdrop, but seeing the stage from the beer garden is next to impossible thanks to broken slabs of concrete and the wall of fans that stand upon them. The pool was an ideal location because the stage was so high that you could see it from anywhere you stood. This waterfront location just kind of stresses me out.

  • spiritross

    Comfort stresses you out?

    Wow, that sucks for you.

  • John Del Signore

    No one could save the Pool Parties; they died when they left the pool. Now that it's in the state park, it's just an over-regulated hipster catastrophuck. Jelly needs to find a better location.

  • spiritross

    Hmm let me see...

    How about you stand in a crowd on asphalt with no shade and long lines for 4 hours.

    While me and everyone that understands the phrase "Common Sense"...

    Will lie out in the grass, occasionally walking over to get a beer with no lineup in the spacious alcoves of the new riverfront park.

    Don't be scared

    Change is New York

    If you don't like change

    Then you don't like NYC.

  • crabbapple

    Free shows are great. But being forced to buy very overpriced water because security confiscated the water I brought myself, and it`s summertime with no shade out there, not so much fun. If they take people`s water at the door, they should provide free tap water to drink. It`s a safety issue in the summer heat.

  • you have to give up your water because the vendors are all members of the open space alliance and they support the pool parties so they can make money at them.

    the pool parties are incredibly unpleasant, and not letting people bring food or water into a state park because there are vendors set up in it is totally fucked up.

  • grizzzly

    definitely a good issue to take up with JellyNYC

  • Kojak

    "Pool Parties are returning to the Williamsburg Waterfront"

    Horray. Once again can I look forward to swimming in other people's urine. Ohhh Happy Day

  • tsk_tsk_tsk

    Don't knock it till you've tried it.

  • Snoopy

    As he ended his speech the right Reverend C. E. Schumer proclaimed, ""Free at last! Free at last! Thank God Almighty, we are free at last!"

  • Abbott

    Why do the stupid bike lanes have to be mentioned in every article, regardless of how irrelevant? Let it go Jen Carlson.

  • thewildpansy

    She was using his quote. Would you rather she leave parts out?

  • Abbott

    What are you talking about?

    'Maybe Schumer can work his magic powers on the Bedford Ave bike lane next.'

    That's not Schumer's quote, it's her text. Maybe you can read the article next time before you comment.

  • thewildpansy

    I did read it you fucking faggot - she said something about the bike lane because he was talking about bikes.

  • BDS=(Boycott.Divest.Sanction)

    this is what I think of whenever I see this low-life.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FABqq_jjRRo

    thats a great video.

    the pool parties didn't need politicians. we dont need them for foreign policy. we dont need politcians in families. we dont need politcians at all.

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