McCarren Pool
Brooklyn, NY
Robert Moses would be weeping if he saw his once-magnificent McCarren
Pool look the was it does today. Opened in 1936, the pool was one
of the largest public pools ever built, and retains that status to
this day. In 1979, the city approved spending $100 million to rebuild
the pool, but the plan was rejected by the Community Board. In 1983,
McCarren Pool closed it's gates for the last time. Now, the pool and
bathouse building has become a graffiti practice ground of sorts and
is deteriorating at a fast rate. Numerous attempts at keeping people
out resulted in a chain link fence virtually composed of patches and
the most fearsome barbed wire and razor ribbon obstacles I've ever
seen in a park. Despite its current state, there still is hope for
developing the pool into something the community would benefit from.
For more information on the proposed projects, check out www.poolproject.org.
| Date: |
22 January, 2005 |
| Crew: |
Deltacbravo, Bish, EMI |
| Entry tactics: |
Re-open fence hole |
|
|
| |
|
