Floating Pool On The East River
Us New Yorkers without summer shares in the Hamptons and Fire Island will have one more option this summer for beating the heat – a floating swimming pool, surrounded by a faux “beach” by the Brooklyn Bridge.
The Floating Pool at Brooklyn Bridge Park Beach will open July 4 on a barge moored between Piers 4 and 5 on the Brooklyn waterfront. It will be open to the public, free of charge, 11 a.m. to 7 p.m., seven days a week through Labor Day. A free shuttle bus will carry swimmers from surrounding neighborhoods.
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The pool is docked at a 43,000-square-foot “beach,” a parking lot transformed by sand brought in from Red Hook. ” Brooklyn’s trying to give Paris a run for its money,” the president of the Brooklyn Bridge Park Conservancy, Marianna Koval, said, referring to similar pools on the Seine.
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