read an oral history on Williamsburg’s McCarren Pool Parties
The bands, the dodgeball and slip-n-slides, free beer, the dead guy, and more -- it's all discussed in this new oral history about the mid-'00s McCarren Pool Parties.
McCarren Pool
it’s hot & NYC public pools are open, including McCarren Pool
"These kids were the first to jump in the newly
renovated McCarren Park Pool" - @NYC Mayor's Office
Yesterday was the last day of public school, so today NYC's public pools open, just in time for the second heat wave of the summer with temperatures in the 90s expected through Monda…
renovated McCarren Park Pool" - @NYC Mayor's Office
Yesterday was the last day of public school, so today NYC's public pools open, just in time for the second heat wave of the summer with temperatures in the 90s expected through Monda…
Williamsburg Film Fest (Willifest) kicks off, new Pool Party documentary included
Willifest kicks off with an opening night gala at Galapagos in DUMBO tonight (maybe they forgot it moved!), and then continues with a full schedule of events/movies happening in Williamsburg on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday...
Final Pool Party cancelled, OSA blatantly blames/hates Jelly
OSA Presents @ The Williamsburg Waterfront (more by Chris La Putt)
Whoah. Earlier today I got a tip, from someone that would know, that the final (August 29th) Pool Party has been cancelled...
Whoah. Earlier today I got a tip, from someone that would know, that the final (August 29th) Pool Party has been cancelled...
McCarren Pool actually getting closer to being a pool
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...
Whoah… The Jesus Lizard AND Bad Brains playing free VICE Halloween party in Brooklyn! ++…
Bad Brains @ Irving Plaza in 2008 (more by Tim Griffin)"VICE magazine, which is still not only fully independent but is also flourishing while the dinosaurs that surround us slowly suffocate in the tar pits of their financial ruin, is throwing a massive Halloween birthday party to celebrate our…
Dead Milkmen playing Philly on Halloween, Joe Jack Talcum touring, playing Asbury Lanes (w…
Dead Milkmen guitarist Joe Jack Talcum sets off today (9/1) on a two week solo tour. The tour visits NYC this Friday, September 4th for a show at Cake Shop with Samuel Locke-Ward vs...
Vivian Girls vs Crystal Stilts vs Dum Dum Girls – Halloween 2009 in NYC & tour dates & pic…
DOWNLOAD: Vivian Girls - When I'm Gone (MP3)
7:07 p.m.: The Vivian Girls put out one of my favorite albums of 2008, and their brief but hard-hitting set doesn't disappoint...
7:07 p.m.: The Vivian Girls put out one of my favorite albums of 2008, and their brief but hard-hitting set doesn't disappoint...
Pool Aid fighting against McCarren Pool name change
To: New York City Parks Department
We do not support the Parks Department's plan to sell the naming rights to McCarren Pool. Our pool was built and paid for by the taxpayers, not by a corporation...
We do not support the Parks Department's plan to sell the naming rights to McCarren Pool. Our pool was built and paid for by the taxpayers, not by a corporation...
2009 @ the Williamsburg Waterfront — show schedule so far
With Brooklyn's McCarren Park Pool ceasing to exist as a music venue in 2009, JellyNYC has moved their Sunday "Pool Parties" to the Williamsburg Waterfront...