This watery venture just scored a formal street address in the middle of the East River.
Futuristic floating swimming-hole project Plus Pool (+ Pool) has officially been given a city-approved location to drop anchor slightly north of the Manhattan Bridge, in the water adjacent to the Lower East Side, Curbed reported.
The project was first conceived in 2010 when four friends at design firm PlayLab floated it by two members of architecture firm Family.
“It started as a simple idea: Instead of trying to clean the entire river, what if you started by just cleaning a small piece of it?” states a project history on Plus Pool’s official website. “With this thought in mind, four designers proposed + POOL — a floating plus-shaped pool in the inner harbor of the NYC waterfront, designed to filter the very river that it floats in through its walls, cleaning more than 600,000 gallons of water every single day.”
The friends then crowdsourced over $40,000 for their giant East River Brita-filter idea, tested some of its filtration mechanisms at Brooklyn Bridge Park in 2011 and pitched it to city officials.
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Yeah filthy river with a pool. How long before the filthy people come here and make it a dirty cesspool? They would have to charge a pretty penny in order to keep the filthy people out of the pool.
Great another playpen for the extended adolescence plagued hipsters and trust fundies
Call an elected with your idea for a program and meet a bored underling who will promise to discuss it with the elected official whose salary you are paying to represent your interests.
The same officeholder who will clog your inbox with inane emails begging for donations, but who will take your tax money away from your idea that benefits your community and give it to a nitwit who does stupid things like this.
Actually, this is the story from a decade ago. The only difference today is the bored underling will never call you back for a meeting. Things are so much cleaner now that you cut out the citizen-taxpayer from the equation.
When is the pool coming to the Gowanus canal and Newtown creek. We deserve a pool too. A filthy pool for filthy third world trash. All part of the great mosaic.
@#1 Like Robert Moses did ?
Something for New York's entitled elite.
Can't wait to take a leak in it.
FILTHY POOL - FILTHIER POLITICIANS (ALL of whom NEVER face impeachment; they are carried to full terms). There is so much political filth here in New York, that it's forcing its multigenerational residents to bolt faster than nuclear proliferation. These neo-liberal, DemonRat scourges are even worse than a nuclear accident - and, a hundred trillion times more LETHAL!
I'm outraged!
Good news! The homeless can bath and do their laundry @ the same time.
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