patrick henry MEHCarren

2:04 PM - YOU ARE A LOSER!!!!

As long as they don't change it to Obama Pool, I could care less.

A Walmart Pool full of water is better than a McCarren pool full of weeds.

Yeah, a Senator who took bribes from Standard Oil while in office deserves to be honored.

There is much truth in the statement, "The bridges, the parks, the improved means of transit, the better paved and lighted streets...by which the Brooklyn of to-day is distinguished....are due more to the legislative efficiency of Senator McCarren than to the influence of any other individual."

Of course, he did so frequently on behalf of the Eastern District's big industries, becoming a political marionette for both oil and sugar. He was publicly charged with actually being on the payroll of Rockefeller's Standard Oil Company. According to one account, "No denial of the charge was ever made by the Senator." One paper even referred to him as "the Standard Oil serpent of Brooklyn politics."

http://theboweryboys.blogspot.com/2009/02/patrick-mccarren-how-politican-became.html

You're talking to my guy Patrick Henry McCarren all wrong.

Ok 2:40...so you would prefer Coca-Cola Park Pool...you would probs like PBRberg...

But how do we keep the minorities out?

Remember when no one cared? That was right now.

I actually prefer "Anon Douchebag 2:52 pm Pool"

2:55 is afraid of big mean black/spanish people

3:29 is anything but sharp.

People shouldn't have to plug a company to tell anyone where they are going.

People don't have to.

I for one think the whole thing should go back to being called Greenpoint Park. You burgers have been getting far too comfortable.

"Standard Oil Serpent Pool" has a nice ring to it.

"Wham-O Slip 'N Slide Pool"

"Anon 3:21 Corporate Sellout Pool" is the correct term. You probably love major labels.

How about: "Fuck You Pool" ?

I have a feeling that strongly worded letter is going to work!

If this doesn't work, the concerned parties are moving back to Connecticut. Fuck this bullshit!

"Major Labels Rule Pool"

Daft Pool?

3:29 - I think you mean "Spanish-speaking" people, not the Spanish themselves. Phrases like "Hispanic" or the one that the younger crowd likes, "Latino", refer to Spanish speakers and/or descendents of the Spanish in the Western Hemisphere. "Spanish" itself refers to Spaniards, or those from the country of Spain.

Of course, I'm fine with "Spics" should you use that one.

Actually, 5:27, most Latinos, especially caribbean Latinos, say "Spanish" to mean any Latino. Only white people don't know this- which is weird, because it's something you figure out quickly when you live in Brooklyn.

dude,
That's because Carribean Latinos, especially ones in New York, are wrong.

i don't realize what the crime in corporate sponsorship is

7:40, if you read the story and knew the facts, you would know that it is not a knee-jerk reaction to corporate sponsorship. In fact, this is not sponsorship at all. McCarren Pool is 100% paid for by taxpayers--both its original construction and its renovation and reopening. All paid for! Selling the naming rights would contribute nothing to the pool. In fact the money wouldn't even go to this neighborhood.

If some corporation wants to give $3 million to build a new park in North Brooklyn, or maybe a bike path along the water, we're all for it! A little place where people could kayak would be nice. But the pool already has a name, and pool is already paid for.

Thanks for posting this Brooklyn Vegan, we aren't embarrassed to care about something.

www.poolaid.org

The Wavves Pool.

Fill that sumbitch with tears and period blood.

MEH = MORON!

Senator McCarren was an OIL MAN

Dead Guy in the Shack Pool

"Standard Oil Serpent Pool" has a nice ring to it.