The Parks Department and Rogers Marvel Architects presented an update on McCarren Pool to Community Board 1 last night. We have the renderings that were shown and also a report from Mikki Halpin of PoolAid of her impressions of the meeting. This is an excerpt of the email she sent out: At the CB1 meeting […]

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Whether the original date in the email that was circulated was screwed up or whether the date was changed is irrelevant, but the session with the Parks Department and Rogers Marvel to review the status of the renovation of the landmarked McCarren Pool and its conversion back to a swimming pool was a mistake. The […]

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The Parks Dept. and architects Rogers & Marvel are going to be providing an update on everyone’s favorite spot in Wiliamsburg, McCarren Pool. It will be in the form of a presentation to the Community Board’s Parks Committee on February 10th and will happen at 6:30pm at Our Lady of Snow (410 Graham Ave.  between […]

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Yesterday, we posted two big photo galleries on Curbed of the work underway at McCarren Pool. One was of the new skatepark that is being built on the Bayard Street side of the property. The other was of the renovation work underway on the arch. The later is pictured above. The former is pictured below. […]

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The Landmarks Preservation Commission public hearing on the plan for McCarren Pool, a preliminary rendering of which is above, is going to be happening next week. Per info on the WGPA blog, it’ll be happening on Tuesday, 9 September. Since the pool was landmarked last year, the LPC has to approve the renovation plan. The […]

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Here are a few vids posted to the YouTube of the Sonic Youth show at McCarren Pool, which was also the last big concert at the pool.

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Here’s a fun time lapse just posted to the YouTube of the stage at McCarren Pool being put together. The whole thing.

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Yes, the Pool Parties are McCarren Pool are but a memory (and about 100,000 Flickr photos), but the final Missed Connection they produced may be the best. It’s so good, we can’t let it sit until the Sunday of Labor Day Weekend when so many people won’t be paying attention: Orville Redenbacher IV at Yo […]

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[Photo courtesy of Katie Lee Rush/Flickr] For those that didn’t get a chance to say goodbye at the final JellyNYC show on Sunday or who aren’t going to be at the Sonic Youth show on the 30th (which will be a benefit for the Open Space Alliance), there will be a block party/community event at […]

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[All photos courtesy of Katie Lee Rush] Indie rockers Yo La Tengo headlined yesterday’s final Sunday Pool Party at McCarren Pool, ending a series that’s filled Williamsburg with music on summer Sunday afternoons for three years. GL’s new Music Correspondent Katie Lee Rush shot all the photos above. She described the show as “crowded, but […]

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While it’s not the last concert at McCarren Pool, a short-lived, yet somewhat glorious era in the neighborhood’s history comes to an end this weekend with the final Pool Party produced by Jelly NYC. Yo La Tengo will close out the festivities. The show is actually a fundraiser for Barack Obama. Admission is free, but […]

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[Photo courtesy of wzrdreams/GL Flickr Pool] Here’s a gorgeous sunset captured earlier this week at McCarren Pool toward the end of the summer concert era.

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We were reminded of Topshop’s McCarren Pool “hipster galleries” by a post on Williamsboard that said “this made me feel a little bit dirty.” The link, in turn, led to the topshop website and the self-described “hipster galleries” about which we have nothing to add. Interestingly, however, after yesterday’s coverage of efforts to try to […]

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[Photo courtesy of wzrdreams/GL Flickr Pool] It’s a few days old, but we love this pick shot at the Wilco show at McCarren Pool the other night and put in our GL Flickr Pool by wzrdreams.

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Here are a few vids of Wilco performing at McCarren Pool last night.

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[Photo courtesy of Glasson/GL Flickr Pool] It was only a few years ago that McCarren Pool was a kind of a scary spot, covered with graffiti and overgrown with weeds. All that’s changed now, but GL Flickr Pool contributor Glasson laid some nice pics on us to recall the good, old pre-hipster, pre-concert days at […]

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[Image courtesy of i’mjustsayin/flickr] The Liars played McCarren Pool yesterday and here’s a shot of Angus Andrew from the stage courtesy of i’mjustsayin. See the full set here.

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There’s nothing new about corporate marketing at McCarren Pool Parties, but retailer Topshop’s take has some interesting angles. First, they’ll have a “colored beach huts, mats and deck chairs in one corner of the pool and promo girls will prowl the area, armed with limited-edition beach blankets covered in Topshop hearts and some sort of […]

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Lovers of movies and spending a warm summer night outdoors at McCarren Pool will be happy to find that L Magazine has released the new schedule for its Summer Screen series at the park. July 8: Rushmore July 15: The Virgin Suicides July 22: Wet Hot American Summer July 29: Desperately Seeking Susan August 5: […]

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Performers at Sunday Pool Parties at McCarren Pool this summer will include The Breeders, MGMT, The Hold Steady, Liars, Aesop Rock, Black Lips, Deerhunter, Fuck Buttons, Matt Kim, Black Moth Super Rainbow, Team Robespierre, The Loved Ones, Panther, King Khan and His Shrines, & Ting Tings. Details and schedule to come.–Brooklyn Vegan

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If you thought the proposal for a big underground power plant in Williamsburg that would be built by Transgas at the Bushwick Inlet was killed in 2006, you’re wrong. If you thought it died in 2007, well, you’re wrong again. The Power Plant with Nine Lives is still technically alive, and there is yet another […]

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We finally got our hands yesterday on some high quality renderings of the Rogers Marvel plan for McCarren Pool in Greenpoint/Williamsburg and posted them on Curbed. (Full slide show below.) The renderings came with the caveat that they are “drafts” and the reminder that, of course, the Landmarks Preservation Commission has to sign off on […]

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There’s another showing of the plans for McCarren Pool tonight (and, hopefully, the Parks Department and the architects will also soon release some high-quality renderings of its plans so that everyone in Brooklyn can see them). As we noted last week, McCarren Pool is being returned to service as a pool, so the days of […]

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The rebuilt McCarren Pool will feature a huge swimming pool in summer and ice skating in winter, although this will be the last year for big concerts at the site. The details of the $50 million renovation were presented to a community meeting in Williamsburg. “I was very impressed at how sensitive they were to […]

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The plans for McCarren Pool are coming. They’ll be discussed tonight at a meeting at 6:30 PM at The Lady of the Snow Society, which is located at 410 Graham Ave. (btwn Withers & Jackson Sts.). The Bloomberg Administration has committed $50 million for renovating the pool. The design is coming from Rogers & Marvel, […]

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