i found it interesting that because the pool has become popular for concerts, the parks department would want to reopen it as a pool. it's not very logical, unless they were going to have gigantic floating raft stage with bands playing on it.

sounds like some ones seen one to many sum 41 videos.

FUCK YEAH!

i'd buy the chicks on the slip n slide for a dollar

as much as its sort of like the ultimate in hipster never never land heaven, you cant deny its kinda cool that all summer you have great free shows there with great bands in this massive old concrete slab.

that superchunk show was awesome.

the city parks dept decided to reopen the pool for concerts - lease it out to live nation and jelly for public peformances - in order to raise money for its capital fund. this sort of makes sense if you think about it. here is a good article about its history and ensuing controversies.
http://www.nypress.com/20/31/news&columns/feature.cfm
i personally love these shows - especially the free jellynyc shows. i think that these events will be remembered for a long time to come, especially once they will have to find a new location. unfortunately nothing great lasts forever, and hopefully the people of williamsburg will one day have a great pool to use on those hot summer days.

B&B's

Brooklyn Bikini's

Though these ladies are most likely from Long Island.

What time does Daft Punk play McCarren Park Pool?

nooo, i was at that deerhoof show and i love the pool as a venue!

awesome news

Yeah, Pool fun.

And didn't they change their name to Les Scab-y Fav?

11:09:

They're not. They're playing at my house.

Specifically in the bathtub. They're opening for Sonic Youth.

Skinny hipsters in skimpy bathing suits... there's nothing wrong with that. And yes, while I agree with Anon 10:50 in that the "cool-kid factor" is off the charts and pretty obnoxious, it's great that they have these and overall they're (usually) pretty fun.

this is FANTASTIC!!!!!!!!

Fuckin' white people!

REM/Modest Mouse dates?
Anyone? Anyone?

yay!!!

Srsly... awesome news.

I only got to attend the GB/BSS/Feist show last year and was blown away both by the sound and the receptiveness of the crowd... I think it's because the whole pool scene chases away a good number of the timid hipsters that folk here always complain about... I could be wrong. please don't attack me.

:)

They should really program the concerts to reflect the diversity of the neighborhood. It is a public venue, after all.

Diversity of the neighborhood? Williamsburg? Diversity? HAHAHHAHAAHAHAHAHAHA

Oh man, that's a good one!

Most public pools quickly turn into filthy cesspools. The thing about the concerts is that there is a certain amount of diversity. One of the biggest Polish bands played there last summer (sadly, rain hurt attendance), though I don't remember the name of the band.

Diversity of music for the pool? Sorry, but it was the white hipsters, rich yuppies, and entrepreneurial people who made the pool concerts what they are. What did the Poles, Puerto Ricans, and Italians do with the space since it closed in the eighties? Um, NOTHING. Now they want to latch onto this great space that it is only after someone else figured out how awesome it is. Sorry, I don't buy this postgentrification complaining.

The same argument could be made regarding building lofts in former factory and warehouse buildings in Williamsburg. It wasn't the "original" locals who thought, "Wow, this huge building could be great if I built some walls and put some effort into making a habitable space from wasted space." And who did the Puerto Ricans push out of the neighborhoof when they moved en masse in the fifties and after? But I digress....

What time does Shooting Pool put on a white hood?

Well played, Shooting Pool. Well played.

PS: No need for calling out individual groups, I just think that gentrification has brought some pretty good things to the area.

ah i work there. it's so good to know that i'll be back doing what i love again this coming summer.

"And who did the Puerto Ricans push out of the neighborhoof when they moved en masse in the fifties and after? "

No one. They moved in there because no one wanted to live there, which made the rents cheap enough for immigrants to afford.

holy crap, will someone please 'moderate' these ignorant comments?

"The same argument could be made regarding building lofts in former factory and warehouse buildings in Williamsburg. It wasn't the "original" locals who thought, "Wow, this huge building could be great if I built some walls and put some effort into making a habitable space from wasted space." And who did the Puerto Ricans push out of the neighborhoof when they moved en masse in the fifties and after? But I digress...."

you're a real asshole.
where are YOU from, asshole?

i want to generate a hipster porn site. i'll make a lot of money because all i hear is hipster this and hipster that. any loving ladies willing to bear all for my friends and i while the camera rolls? don't worry i have a film degree at Pratt; i have talent.

It's just not summer without hipster dodgeball

omg race politics in the brooklynvegan comments. nothing good can come of it.

i love mccarren pool parties, it's fun. especially the free one. actually only the free ones.

Me again. I didn't mention anything about race in my comments, only nationalities (Poland, Italian, Puerto Rican, a territory occupied by the US). My fellow commenters are playing the race card, not me--I'm just bluffing.

Am I wearing a white hood? How do you even know that I'm white? (Which I am.)

I'm glad the pool shows are continuing. The place is city/public property. I'm sure if other groups in the neighborhood wanted to put on shows there, they'd go through the same channels at Live Nation, Jelly NYC, and others to do it. More power to them!

go back to ohio dickheads. ny has lost its edge due to the influx of assholes like this schlub "hipster pool"

that's why there's such a healthy disdain for you people from and by real new yorkers.

fuckin' self-entitled, hipster 'tards.

ohio has better bands anyway

yo, what band is this:

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2158/2240542660_a9438dfbf4_b.jpg

good to hear mcPool is still going, but this should be last year.

with the over development of condos and poor economy, it's only a matter of time before buildings start getting torched again for insurance, and all you pussies will move back to ohio, which sucks by the way. none of us ever move there. i will be photographing you and laughing as all the 'dirty immigrants and black people' are gutting you in the streets for wearing skinny jeans and dressing like an asshole. you can tell who the newbies are by the smug look of confidence, as they've never experienced the 'real new york', and it takes me back to a time when that's all it would have taken for you to get be called a faggot, chased, and had your ribs kicked in for no reason at all.
also, jackass, you left out the jews. the hasids have controlled most of williamsburg for a long time. why not start the all out race war on them for sitting on all those abandoned factories, then illegally leasing them to all you eurotrash/midwest 'artists'?
go back to your food court fatties in strip mall hell shitcock. or please post a photo of yourself.

torti, that band is proton proton. they broke up.
http://www.myspace.com/protonproton

i love hipster hate. its like hippy hate. fascinating stuff.

btw the "real new york" sounds awful. very very happy its gone. i am also very happy London emerged from that whole industrialization-era lower class slum hell hole it was in during the 1890s. tough times. though i understand why people who lived in the "real new york" are pissed. its like you get hazed as a freshman and its sucks, and then your a senior and hazing is outlawed, but you still say to the freshman "ahhh man you fuckers have it so easy, one day this will change back to the old ways and i'll be laughing so hard when you get the shit beaten out of you."

good analogy

Is it summer yet!

you say its smug look of confidence, I say its arrogance, and NONE of it is Ohio - you don't know ohio unless you lived there for more than a few years, and most of the kids from Ohio are NOT the hipsters...they're just fucked up, have big hearts and worthwhile people

think south if you're thinking smug confidence.

smug confidence and ohio are about as opposite as glamour and pittsburg - if you don't know shit about Ohio and PA, don't even try to start

how dare people who are not from new york city come to live in new york city!!! that has never happened in our histor... oh.

it is crazy to me that there is so many people here hating on others. I lived in Williamsburg for a while and last summer i went to almost all the concerts with my son of 4 years old... we loved them... who cares about the hipsters ? Grow up people.. there was a lot of great free music there.... and the water slides were fun too!!! Besides Williamsburg it's much bigger than 6 blocks on Bedford Av.

your foreigner friend....
(not puerto rican)
(not polish)
(not italian)
mentioning nationalities it's just outrageous... a lot of that people probably didn't have neither the resources nor the power to have that event happening my friend... that's why it's great to have some white rich people in your hood like you call them... or even better that's why it's good to have educated people that loves music organizing such a great community event like that!!

I'm noticing how expensive these tickets end up being ($70 for Devo/Deacon/Tom Tom after hidden fees on TicketBastard) and wondering what the economics of it are? Anyone know how much goes to the promoter, the city, the band, the park, etc? Or where to find that info?

I know these shows are "for profit" but I'm curious about margins, etc. Especially when people are being asked to spend a biggish chunk of change for a show in a public space.

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