New York Open Air Swimming Pools

[davetuc]

Hi all, just wondering if anyone has any knowledge of open air pools in New York that you can spend a half day at relaxing and chilling out. We're going in August and it's gonna be baking hot! So wouldn't mind a day just relaxing and cooling off. Thanks.

[Buenchico]

Courtesy of Time Out:
http://www.timeout.com/newyork/sport-fitness/best-swimming-pools-in-new-york-city

From the City Council's website:
http://www.nycgovparks.org/facilities/outdoor-pools/

and from Metromix:
http://newyork.metromix.com/events/standard_photo_gallery/the-best-outdoor-pools/1309086/content

NB: Note the rules about no newspapers and (rather oddly?) white shirts only!

[jno]

for all that... you could sit by a pool right here. Heat or not, I'd be out seeing NYC! (Or inside and seeing NYC).

Enjoy yourself, whatever.

[237SJ]

I like the pictures on those links - they obviously didn`t take the photographs when the weather was really hot. We`ve got an open air pool where I live and on a hot day, they`re packed like sardines in there.

[spudqueen]

jno - it can be a totally different experience to what we have at home. In Hong Kong one August about 5 years ago my family and I went to Kennedy town outdoor swimming pool. We still talk about it now. For a start it was free, then there were four pools, a training one, an olympic size one, a childrens one with slides and inflatables and then the ordinary one. This was all on a roof top surrounded by tall apartment buildings. I have since read that due to expansion of the metro the old swimming pool has been knocked down and a new one built, not surrounded by very tall buildings, so the experience we had has now gone forever, but we'll always have our memories of a fantastic afternoon spent on a rooftop where we were the only westerners there!