Dozens of outdoor city pools reopen for the season TODAY ... locally, this means the Hamilton Fish Pool on Pitt and East Houston (above, as seen on Saturday), the Dry Dock Pool on 10th Street and Avenue D and the Tompkins Square Park mini pool... which workers were filling on Sunday morning (don't forget to skim the pool for leaves and beers!) ... Every year, we hear from people who had no idea there was a mini pool in Tompkins Square Park. The mini pool is open for children and their parents-guardians.
If this helps with location ...
Outdoor hours are from 11 a.m. through 7 p.m. daily, with a break for pool cleaning between 3 p.m. and 4 p.m. Find more info about city pools at this link. The mini pool is open until Labor Day, with the larger pools in service through Sept. 11.
And an important — and unfortunate — note about pool programming this summer: "Due to the current national lifeguard shortage, all swim programs, including lap swim, senior swim, and Learn to Swim, have been canceled for summer 2022."
LOL. I think I went 10-15 years before realizing there was a pool in Tompkins. A lot of that was because that area used to be closed to people without kids.
ReplyDeleteis it just for kids? i have a kid and go there, and yes most people there are kids or have kids with them but i just assumed it was because it's a small pool , well, filled with kids, so why would adults want to be there? but i've never seen any signs there or information on the parks website saying it's restricted to kids and their grown ups...
ReplyDeleteOnly a single lifeguard turned up at Hamilton Fish this morning, so the fifty meter pool was roped off and swimming was allowed in only one very crowded quarter of the water. Yesterday the lifeguards were shipped in from Queens and swimming ended two hours early because they had to go home.
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