Governor Kathy Hochul and Mayor Eric Adams have just announced the installation of + POOL, a floating swimming pool equipped with an innovative water filtration system, at Pier 35 in New York’s East ...
As recently as the 1940s, New Yorkers swam in floating pools in the Hudson and East rivers. A safer alternative to swimming directly in the river, the municipal baths kept residents cool in hot summer ...
Some 14 years after we first reported on it – and following multiple challenges and false starts – the ambitious plan to create a self-filtering floating public pool in a New York City river is now ...