It’s finally warm out and pool season is about to begin. You’ll have to wait until June 29 to visit McCarren Park Pool but the pool at the William Vale Hotel and McCarren Hotel’s pool are both set to open on Friday, May 26: Ever since its opening last summer, The William Vale has added […]
Let the skating begin: McCarren Rink opens Friday
From OSA: The nonprofit Open Space Alliance for North Brooklyn (OSA) and NYC Parks will celebrate the opening of McCarren Rink – North Brooklyn’s first and only outdoor ice skating rink – with a grand opening event on Friday, November 15 at 11am. Local officials will be on hand for a ceremonial ribbon cutting to […]
McCarren Park Ice-Skating Rink opening in November
Hopefully, it’ll be less of a shitshow than the pool has been. Via the Times On Nov. 15, the plaza will become northern Brooklyn’s first ice-skating rink on parks land and one of only a handful of rinks in the borough. The rink is not huge, but with 7,200 square feet of space, it will […]
Remembering the McCarren Park Pool before it was a pool again…
Do you remember venturing out to/in Williamsburg every Sunday, rain or shine for the Jelly Pool Parties at the once defunct McCarren Park Pool?
NYPD Uses Pepper Spray In McCarren Pool Melee
We told ourselves we were going to take a break from posting horror stories about the McCarren Park Pool after it’s first week of long lines, fights, theft, increased police presence, and feces. But the pool made news again hours ago when the NYPD had to use pepper spray against bathers before shutting down the […]
The Politics Of McCarren Park Pool
The Awl has a 6000 word piece on McCarren Park Pool: The Post called the pool a “mini-war zone” and then questioned a policy of inspecting swimming trunks, local television stations called the pool “plagued by a wave of violence,” Gothamist pondered whether the facility was “doomed to repeat its infamous past,” and The New […]
Police Swarm McCarren Park Pool After Rough First Week
Today marks a week that the newly renovated McCarren Park Pool has been open and boy oh boy what a week it’s been. In response to the attacks on lifeguards, assault on police, and theft – not to mention the bad press – police have moved in with full force. A Walk in the Park […]
Violence Continues At The McCarren Park Pool
On Sunday we told you about how the McCarren Park Pool was off to a rocky start, including an incident in which teens attacked a lifeguard who told them not to do backflips. Well it looks like that was only the beginning. Another fight went down yesterday and this time the NYPD was called in […]
Endless Lines, Lifeguard Attacks, And Why You Won't Be Going To The McCarren Park Pool
It’s been four days since the McCarren Park Pool’s big reopening and things have gotten off to a rough start. Thursday’s event featured a well-intentioned ceremony by Mayor Bloomberg, but he kept referring to the park as “McClarren” and only mentioned its location in Williamsburg, not Greenpoint. The pool should have opened at 11 a.m., […]
Video: McCarren Park Pool Opening
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