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The Flushing Meadows Corona Park Aquatics Center and Ice Rink, also known as the Flushing Meadows Corona Park Aquatics Center or Flushing Meadows Natatorium, is a 110,000-square-foot (10,000 m 2) facility in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, Queens, New York City, with an Olympic-sized pool and an NHL-standard rink.
McCarren Park Pool, before renovations. East of the bathhouse, McCarren Park contains an enclosed elliptical pool area that is aligned north-south. The pool area is composed of a main swimming pool that was built as a 330-by-165-foot (101 by 50 m) rectangular pool. [14]
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By the mid-1960s, 450,000 residents occupied the neighborhood's nine square miles. Bedford–Stuyvesant had become Brooklyn's most populous neighborhood and had the second largest concentration of African-Americans in the United States. Garbage pickup decreased and local schools deteriorated.
In 2011, the facility underwent a renovation after a 40lbs light fixture fell about 55 feet into the swimming pool. [4] Since 2011 it had also been proposed to build an additional outdoor 50m pool adjacent to the existing facility.
Maimonides Park (formerly MCU Park and KeySpan Park) is a minor league baseball stadium on the Riegelmann Boardwalk in the Coney Island neighborhood of Brooklyn in New York City. The home team and primary tenant is the New York Mets-affiliated Brooklyn Cyclones of the South Atlantic League.
The natatorium serves as the event center for the men's and women's swimming and diving teams as well as the men's and women's water polo squads. [2] The facility has a six-lane, 25-yard pool, with depths ranging four to seven feet deep. [2] The pool has a separate diving well and diving boards of one and three meter heights. [2]
While the Shute Park facility was under renovation, the city began plans to build a second aquatic center for the city. [20] In January 2006, the city announced plans to build a center at Northeast 53rd Avenue where they had purchased 41 acres (17 ha), including a storage building once used by Soloflex. [20]