Pier 2 Pop-Up Pool in Brooklyn Bridge Park: What to Know Before You Go
Submitted by Anna Fader on
By now everybody's heard about the new pool in McCarren Park, which has been making headlines first for its size and beauty as well as its lines and mayhem. Meanwhile, another new Brooklyn pool has opened in Dumbo to comparatively little fanfare.
I had heard the Brooklyn Bridge Park Pier 2 Pop-Up Pool was going to be small and just 3.5-feet deep. Only 60 people can swim in it at a time, which sounds like an impossibly tiny number, especially when you consider the lines that have been forming outside of the McCarren Park Pool, which holds 1,500 people. So I decided to head over to Brooklyn Bridge Park to check it out for myself.
I'm glad I went. The pool is lovely and much nicer in some ways than other free NYC public pools, but there's a lot of stuff that's important to know before you go.