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[Monday] in the Williamsburg/Greenpoint buffer zone, Mayor Bloomberg & friends gathered to break ground--or should we say threw some finely placed dirt on astroturf--on the long-awaited McCarren Park Pool renovation. He may have referred to it as McLaren Park for the first three quarters of his speech, but Bloomburg still managed to build excitement for the $50 million project to get off the ground despite a rough spot for funding public projects in the city. Originally constructed under Fiorello LaGuardia in 1936 as a WPA project, the Pool fell under disarray by 1984 and closed until being converted into the world's most fashion-forward music venue a few years back. [Curbed]That fashion-forward music venue moved to the Williamsburg Waterfront last summer, and (it seems) will return to the new spot this summer as well.
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This pool is gonna be dope! I just got my speedos out the closet.
Posted by Anonymous | December 10, 2009 1:27 PM
I wonder if they will allow food and drink at the pool?
one of my favorite activities is sipping on a fine Pinot Noir as I dip pita triangles in a hummus platter with the smell of sunscreen wafting through the air.
Posted by Anonymous | December 10, 2009 1:36 PM
McLaren Pool is right. Ever get the feeling you’d been cheated?
Posted by Anonymous | December 10, 2009 1:38 PM
fuck bloomy and $150 million campaign, Dems shouldve actually cared about this race might have made a difference
Posted by Anonymous | December 10, 2009 1:43 PM
Can you get hipster herpes from a public pool?
Posted by Anonymous | December 10, 2009 1:49 PM
not normally but i bet you can in w'burg.
Posted by Anonymous | December 10, 2009 2:03 PM
We have a long way to go as a species.
Posted by Anonymous | December 10, 2009 2:07 PM
fuck bloomy and all politicians. bury those fuckers!
Posted by Anonymous | December 10, 2009 2:22 PM
This is going to be an amazing place to drop liquid!!!
Posted by Anonymous | December 10, 2009 2:25 PM
I can't wait to shit in this public pool!
Posted by Anonymous | December 10, 2009 3:03 PM
one of my favorite activities is sipping on a fine Pinot Noir as I dip pita triangles in a hummus platter with the smell of sunscreen wafting through the air.
I, myself prefer a crisp white wine, either a reisling or maybe even a sauvignon blanc. I enjoy swirling this around my mouth with my lover performs oral on me with a mouthful of hummus.
Posted by Anonymous | December 10, 2009 3:05 PM
MEHyor BloomMEHerg
Posted by Anonymous | December 10, 2009 3:14 PM
now my parents can't afford my rent
Posted by Anonymous | December 10, 2009 3:18 PM
I am so fat right now, how long until this thing opens?
Posted by Anonymous | December 10, 2009 3:25 PM
^ word
Posted by TXn | December 10, 2009 3:30 PM
if you think your too fat for this, then cut down on the hummus brother. Its a delicacy not to be abused.
Posted by Anonymous | December 10, 2009 3:49 PM
The pool is actually not supposed to open until 2012, I believe. Kind of ridiculous.
3:14 wins also. Someone had to say it.
Posted by Anonymous | December 10, 2009 3:55 PM
2012? we'll all be ded then :'-(
Posted by Anonymous | December 10, 2009 4:06 PM
Meh > hummus.
Posted by Anonymous | December 10, 2009 4:34 PM
If this pool were going to be used by actual, non-gentrified locals, maybe it wouldn't be a terrible idea. However, as it stands, I just have a hard time envisioning a bunch of trust-fund hipsters all going to a PUBLIC pool, on a REGULAR basis.
Don't get me wrong, everybody will try it once (maybe twice, if they can find some sort of ironic, 1920's, George Bailey swimsuit, that they hope will pop up in various people's flickr accounts). But once summer hits public pools are usually packed, nuts to butts, with local children. Haven't most of those children been priced out of that neighborhood by, for lack of a better term, us?
Posted by Anonymous | December 10, 2009 5:05 PM
i can't wait to see some hasidic sac in the pool! woohoo!!
Posted by Anonymous | December 10, 2009 5:23 PM
HA!
Posted by Anonymous | December 10, 2009 5:48 PM
5:05, I'm going to hold you under and piss in your mouth for pulling out the trust-fund hipsters canard.
Posted by Anonymous | December 10, 2009 5:59 PM
herpes soup! Cannonball! I don't know if I can wait 3 years for all the fun!
ps I wouldn't worry about locals using the pool, trust fund or not. the pool got shut down in the 80s because the local residents hated all the violence and vandalism it brought into the neighborhood. it'll go down that way again. but not till after Bloomie's construction buddies get their $50 mill.
Posted by Anonymous | December 10, 2009 6:33 PM
hipsters versus hasids riot at the pool.
Posted by chuck d | December 10, 2009 11:51 PM
"McLaren Pool is right. Ever get the feeling you’d been cheated?"
Is that F1 humour? Weak sauce.
Posted by Anonymous | December 11, 2009 12:00 AM
If this pool were going to be used by actual, non-gentrified locals, maybe it wouldn't be a terrible idea. However, as it stands, I just have a hard time envisioning a bunch of trust-fund hipsters all going to a PUBLIC pool, on a REGULAR basis.
Don't get me wrong, everybody will try it once (maybe twice, if they can find some sort of ironic, 1920's, George Bailey swimsuit, that they hope will pop up in various people's flickr accounts). But once summer hits public pools are usually packed, nuts to butts, with local children. Haven't most of those children been priced out of that neighborhood by, for lack of a better term, us?
Dude, I'm soooo sorry you're retarded and misinformed.
It must be a hard life for you. sooo much biiterness.
when was the last time you got laid?
I'm guessing virgin.
Williamsburg and Greenpoint are comprised mostly of working class citizens. Check the census before making such uninformed statements.
Posted by Anonymous | December 11, 2009 8:05 AM