$50 Million McCarren Makeover Gaining Momentum
Plans to remake the McCarren Park Pool, one of eleven WPA pools opened around the city in 1936, took one step closer to becoming reality when the city released renderings yesterday of the Rogers Marvel designs. The most notable aspect of the design is a large jetty jutting out into the middle of the pool…
Plans to remake the McCarren Park Pool, one of eleven WPA pools opened around the city in 1936, took one step closer to becoming reality when the city released renderings yesterday of the Rogers Marvel designs. The most notable aspect of the design is a large jetty jutting out into the middle of the pool that in the winter would double as an ice skating rink. The city is chomping champing at the bit to start spending the estimated $50 million it’ll take to build this. The biggest hurdle remaining? Sign-off from the Landmarks Preservation Commission.
McCarren Pool to rise from deep [NY Daily News] GMAP
McCarren Pool Plans Renderings & Full Reveal [Gowanus Lounge]
The Redone McCarren Pool Fully Revealed [Curbed]
The semicircular pool to the east (left in photo) was a diving pool and will be rebuilt as diving pool. The architect said that they will be raising the deck around that pool to make the pool itself a couple of feet deeper (I guess that’s cheaper than digging down more). It will also have more than one diving board.
The semicircle to the west (right in photo) was once a wading pool. It is now a sprinkler area for tots, part of the Abate playground, and not part of the pool scope. However, the western portion of the main pool will have a “zero edge”, meaning a long gentle slope from the deck into the pool. That’s for wheelchairs as well as children/adults wading. Not quite a wading pool, but close.
The above is all based on the presentation the other night; since everything is conceptual at this point, it is subject to change.
Last – the Mayor is pretty generous (he can afford to be), but I think the pool reconstruction is part of the city’s capital budget. The first installment (planning $$) is in the budget for the current fiscal year; construction funding is allocated for the coming fiscal year.
the young families wanting to move into williamsburg must be stopped! Keep the young and creative single people there.
oh god. no one say hipster. as a not hipster in williamsburg, all i see every day are people on their way to work and back. it is a younger demographic overall in williamsburg, but it appears like the majority has jobs. how can people bitch that the L is crowded, but also say that everyone is sitting around all day supported by their parents?
it’s all silly and not helpful.
personally, i think that the brownstoner set who has money lying around should go buy up studios/one bedrooms just east of the BQE as investments. the rental mkt in williamsburg is very very strong.
however, is there a place here for a real real estate comment still??
“Hipsters” are too weak and skinny to swim, and too pale to sit in the sun. If you provided some shade, perhaps they would sit around and smoke cigarettes here, though.
such a wholesome post 2:26. awwww
Amazing, a Williamsburg post that went almost FOUR HOURS without any cheap hipster jokes. What’s wrong with everyone today?
this is fabulous
i love the park
especially the new running track, and i like the west end with the trees and the ball park – feels like a small town there.
with all the young families in the area, the pool will be a big hit.
hooray!
But arent all the hipsters are going to drown on summer sundays?
As long as they make the hipsters (and everyone else for that matter) shower before they get in… I’m in