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Williamsburg waterfront concerts get another new home
Google street view, via FW. Take a look at this picture and imagine standing here in a long, winding line under the hot summer sun waiting to hear some waterfront jams (can’t wait. Not sarcasm!)....
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Be the first one to jump into McCarren Pool (for $150, that is)
Summer is coming. Local nostalgia is so short-term that it takes the form of crusty 30-something dudes in faded trucker hats and Bloc Party T shirts wandering around north Brooklyn saying “back in my...
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Soon…
Water returns to the McCarren Park Pool for the first time since your pappy was wearing cut-offs. There is actually water in McCarren Pool for the first time since 1984! A reminder that in just one...
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Everybody into the pool! Scenes from McCarren opening day
Photos by Paul Ker. The McCarren (or McClaren, as Hizzoner Bloomberg repeatedly called it) Park pool, like Brooklyn and the rest of New York City in the 80s, was useful mostly as a symbol of urban...
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13 things to do this weekend: Is it July already? edition
McCarren Park Pool photo by Paul Ker. 1. Go jump in the pool, McCarren or any others. The chlorine’s fine. 2. New Orleans comes to Brooklyn, minus the awesome public drinking and the pirates, drunks,...
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The McCarren Pool weekday employment report
Why the world needs interns. Via NY Mag. As you sit there chained to your office cubicle (or chain-drinking iced coffee at your local cafe), know that there are people right now splashing around in the...
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Last chance to swim in the McCarren Pool (or any pool) this weekend
It was a slammin’ summer in the pools. Photo by Paul Ker. Oh summer, where did you go? It seems like only yesterday we were imagining a season full of splashing in the pristine new waters of the...
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