Planning Session for McCarren Park Pool Improvements This Wed.
Help make a difference this Wednesday, June 13th :
Community Board #1, The Open Space Alliance (OSA), and NYC Department of Parks & Recreation invite you to an open public design and planning session for McCarren Park Pool improvements:
WEDNESDAY, JUNE 13, 2007
5:00 PM & 7:00 PM (two sessions)
SWINGING 60'S SENIOR CITIZEN CENTER
211 AINSLIE STREET
(Corner of Manhattan Avenue)
Rather than simply responding to a Parks Dept proposal, we invite you to participate in creating the design.
The Parks Dept. will give a summary of the schedule for the project, and discuss budget considerations. Audience participants will break into small groups, with each table hosted by two facilitators, an independent design professional and a representative from the Parks design department, to help sketch and document the ideas of the participants. Each table will have a large scale plan of the pool area, templates of an Olympic size pool, a multi-purpose building, tracing paper, markers, etc.
The charge for the evening will simply be that the designs must:
1) Provide swimming
2) Provide year-round use
3) Preserve and reuse the existing buildings
Other than that, everyone is free to dream (within budget constraints). The recommendations will be synthesized by the project architects and presented at a follow-up community meeting.
We look forward to your ideas on improving McCarren Park Pool for future generations.
