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[1] [2] Built in 2008, the $66.3 million project is the first indoor public pool to open in New York City in four decades. [3] Initially, the building was intended to serve as the venue for water polo events during the 2012 Summer Olympics , but when the city's bid was lost to London, the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation ...
The Sunset Pool was the sixth of these pools to open. [ 52 ] [ 53 ] [ b ] The pool was dedicated on July 20, 1936, with a crowd of 3,500 spectators. [ 54 ] The center, the first of four planned WPA pools in Brooklyn, [ 45 ] was composed of a one-story bathhouse with a capacity of 4,850; a 256-by-165-foot (78 by 50 m) pool; and two semicircular ...
The Asser Levy Recreation Center is in the Kips Bay neighborhood of Manhattan in New York City, on Manhattan's East Side. [3] [4] The 2.44-acre (0.99 ha) site [5] is bounded by 23rd Street to the south, the VA Medical Center to the west, 25th Street to the north, and the FDR Drive and the East River to the east.
Privately owned public spaces (POPS) in New York City were introduced in the 1961 Zoning Resolution. The city offers zoning concessions to commercial and residential developers in exchange for a variety of spaces accessible and usable for the public. There are over 590 POPS at over 380 buildings in New York City and are found principally in Manhattan. Spaces range from extended sidewalks to ...
Betsy Head Park is a 10.55-acre (4.27 ha) public park in the Brownsville neighborhood of Brooklyn in New York City.The park occupies two non-contiguous plots diagonally across from each other at the intersection of Dumont Avenue and Thomas S. Boyland Street, covering a collective 10.55 acres (4.27 ha).
It also includes the McCarren Play Center, which consists of a recreation center and a pool. McCarren Park is maintained by the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation (NYC Parks). Opened in 1906 and originally named Greenpoint Park, the park was renamed McCarren Park in 1909 after State Senator Patrick H. McCarren (1849–1909), who ...
Two indoor ice rinks [1] 18,000-square-foot (1,700 m 2) field house with hardwood floor, climbing wall and turf field [1] 16,000-square-foot (1,500 m 2) Gymnastics Center [1] 14,000-square-foot (1,300 m 2) Fitness center [1] Arcade; Food court [1] Indoor and Outdoor Sports Bar; Full catering and food service; Large corporate meeting and private ...
These plans called for swimming, wading, and diving pools, as well as a pair of bathhouses with room for 4,462 guests. [57] By mid-1936, ten of the eleven WPA-funded pools were completed and were being opened at a rate of one per week. [40] The Red Hook Pool was the last of these pools to open.