What a summer!
After a fantastic nine weeks of operations, the Floating Pool at Brooklyn Bridge Park Beach has closed for the summer.
The pool and beach attracted over 71,000 guests from all five boroughs of New York City and from as far away as Japan and Finland. We hope you made it down to the site of the future Brooklyn Bridge Park to take a swim and play on the beach as well.
The New York City Parks Department look forward to welcoming the floating pool to its new home this summer in Barretto Point Park, a five acre waterfront park in the Hunts Point area of the Bronx. It is scheduled to open on Friday, June 27. For more information, see www.nycgovparks.org
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The Floating Pool at Brooklyn Bridge Park Beach opened summer 2007 under the direction of the Brooklyn Bridge Park Conservancy in partnership with the pool’s creator, the Neptune Foundation, and is sponsored by The State of New York, through the Empire State Development Corporation, and the City of New York. Critical funding has been provided by New York City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, Councilmember David Yassky and Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz. Shuttle operations are provided by the Downtown Brooklyn Waterfront Local Development Corporation with funding by Congresswoman Nydia Velázquez. Thank you to our operating partners American Leisure, MetroSoccer, Rice, and Equinox Fitness.
Thank you to all who helped make The Floating Pool at Brooklyn Bridge Park Beach possible... Ann Buttenwieser, The Neptune Foundation, and Jonathon Kirschenfeld, for designing and building The Floating Pool Lady and making it available to the people of New York City. The Empire State Development Corporation and the Brooklyn Bridge Park Development Corporation, New York City Council Speaker Christine Quinn, Borough President Marty Markowitz, Council Member David Yassky, and Congresswoman Nydia Velazquez, for the funding support that made the project possible. State Senator Martin Connor, Assemblywoman Joan Millman, and Council Member Bill deBlasio for their support for this project and their continued and generous support for Brooklyn Bridge Park. Empire State Development Corp. Brooklyn Bridge Park Development Corp. NY City Parks NY State Parks American Leisure Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton, LLP D’Onofrio General Contractors (and subcontractors) Seamus Henchy and Associates The Marino Organization Metro Soccer RICE Doe Fund 84th Precinct Securitas Security Services, Inc. Brooklyn Bridge Park Conservancy (Staff and Consultants) Bridge Park Property Services Clarke Thompson Con Edison CR Cushing, Inc. -DJ Cato Equinox Fitness Inc. FJ Sciame Construction Fresh Air Flicks Gardiner and Theobald Heights Chateau Ice Cream McLaren Engineering Group Michael van Valkenburgh Associates RAL Companies Reputation Dynamics Schnack SEE Factor White Marine LLC |
