USA: Man-made beach and floating pool to open in New York
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USA: Man-made beach and floating pool to open in New York
Floating public pool and man-made beach to open on New York City's Brooklyn Bridge waterfront. New York City is known for its skyscrapers, but its new floating beach may attract a few visitors too. On Wednesday (July 4), America's Independence Day, a 260-foot long barge with a beach and a pool will open at the Brooklyn Bridge waterfront. The 25-meter swimming pool is docked at a parking lot-turned-beach, with sand brought in from a nearby neighbourhood. The pool, which overlooks the Manhattan skyline, can accommodate 175 people at a time. "By creating the Brooklyn Bridge Park and by creating this floating pool for this summer what we're saying is, in the days to come, to promise, is that now Brooklyn and New Yorkers, you're gonna be able to use your waterfront," said Marty Markowitz, Brooklyn borough president. The idea for the pool was conceived 27 years ago by Ann L. Buttenweiser, a former Parks Department official. "The day to day life in New York is always very fast paced. This is a way just to get away from it without having to go to Jones Beach, without having to get on a bus, in a car or whatever," said Buttenweiser. The Floating Pool is not the first riverside pool in New York City. At the turn of the 20th century there were 15 pools that used river water and were gradually abandoned due to contamination.
ITN Source | July 4, 2007
