It's That Most Wonderful Time of the Year - Pools Are Open in NYC!

[stevefromqueens]

And you know what that means! This Friday, NYC City pools are open and you just know that whiny Mayor Mike will be there to throw out the first celebratory black kid to his famous war cry of "Everybody in the pool!" - but remember, no "whirlpooling" or sexually assaulting the kids from the projects or beating your baby mama. As I have stated in previous years - where are the pools in the white neighborhoods? It's only or tax dollars that fund this feel good folly. And if the already built in the ground pools are not enough - the city has come up with a "floating pool" on a barge. I suggest we throw a pool party - let's all meet at the friendly and crime-free area of Hunt's Point in the south Bronx near Burrito Park (I'm not making this up - it's for real!) where we will frolic in a safe, clean and "ethnically diverse" environment. Yes boys and girls, that's where they're mooring it - between the burritos, the hookers, and the crack heads. God forbid you put a pool in Howard Beach, Whitestone, Bayside, Glendale, Ozone Park or Douglaston. Oh I forget, we're white and so we all have huge pools in our back yards and the heat doesn't bother us, and if it should, our maids and butlers just fan us until we cool down.  After all, don't all white folks live that way??

[nessuno]

Great Post StevefromQueens. 
The NYC pools are no longer fit for human consumption.

[bongoid]

And you know what that means! This Friday, NYC City pools are open and you just know that whiny Mayor Mike will be there to throw out the first celebratory black kid to his famous war cry of "Everybody in the pool!" - but remember, no "whirlpooling" or sexually assaulting the kids from the projects or beating your baby mama. As I have stated in previous years - where are the pools in the white neighborhoods? It's only or tax dollars that fund this feel good folly. And if the already built in the ground pools are not enough - the city has come up with a "floating pool" on a barge. I suggest we throw a pool party - let's all meet at the friendly and crime-free area of Hunt's Point in the south Bronx near Burrito Park (I'm not making this up - it's for real!) where we will frolic in a safe, clean and "ethnically diverse" environment. Yes boys and girls, that's where they're mooring it - between the burritos, the hookers, and the crack heads. G-d forbid you put a pool in Howard Beach, Whitestone, Bayside, Glendale, Ozone Park or Douglaston. Oh I forget, we're white and so we all have huge pools in our back yards and the heat doesn't bother us, and if it should, our maids and butlers just fan us until we cool down.  After all, don't all white folks live that way??

  I still remember what Dinky O'Dave, our moronic schvartze' Mayor did about about "whirlpooling"-- he would just say; "Don't dis' yo' sis' ". You just can't make this $#!T up !
 But then again,what do you expect from the Mayor who did less than $#!T about the "Rightous uprising of oppressed black folks of color against Hasidic Jewish economic exploitation & colonialist -Zionist oppresion" in Crown Heights  & the Korean Boycott?

[MasterWolf1]

Great Post StevefromQueens. 
The NYC pools are no longer fit for human consumption.

I remember when I was a kid my parents use to take us to Rockaway and Jones beach and they were so nice, also Coney Island.  Now forget it.  Now you got animals on 2 legs.  Seen the beaches lately?  And I love the ocean too bad the tide doesn't wash these vile creatures away.

[WesternPatriot]

Here's a story from LA where housing project residents mistake a swimming pool for bath tub. 


Violence at Watts Pool Raises Questions of Safety in Areas Troubled by Gangs John L. Mitchell, Los Angeles Times, June 24, 2008

A day after opening the summer swim season in the midst of a ferocious heat wave, the L.A. City Department of Recreation and Parks shut down one of the more troubled neighborhood pools in Watts after a band of young men took over the pool deck, attacked the manager and threw him, a lifeguard and a locker room attendant into the water.

The 109th Street Swimming Pool is between two public housing projects, Nickerson Gardens and Jordan Downs, and two competing neighborhood gangs. And it wasn’t the first time the facility had experienced difficulties.

Last year, the city stationed armed guards at the pool during swimming hours and installed video cameras in an attempt to monitor and control unruly crowds that had become a threat to the pool staff and younger swimmers.

But in the sweltering heat Sunday, trouble turned into terror. The pool was packed with more than 200 swimmers, and the two armed guards and six pool workers were easily overwhelmed when up to 30 men went on a rampage.

{snip}

“I want that pool open again, but it has to be safe for the staff and children,” she said. “Now we have 200 children who are out on the streets and doing what?”

News of the closure was not welcomed outside the pool, where a group of teenagers showed up expecting to escape the heat with an afternoon plunge.

“It’s hot out here,” complained Antwon Miller, 15, who briefly contemplated a trip to the county pool on 103rd Street. “There’s nothing to do. If we go over to 103rd Street we could get popped.”

{snip}

Some of the adults were complaining about the $2.50 fee to enter. There was rough play in the water, which grew cloudy because some swimmers did not rinse off before entering and because others jumped in wearing their clothes. Then came an announcement that the pool needed to be temporarily closed for cleaning.

“The water wasn’t safe,” pool manager Christopher Molina said. “It is our responsibility to make sure the water is safe. But they wanted us to know this was their pool and we just worked there.”

The atmosphere grew even more tense Sunday when pool officials announced, again, that the water had become too cloudy and the pool needed to be closed. A group of men in their 20s and 30s were told first in an effort to enlist their help, but they refused to go. “We asked them to leave and things went out of control,” Molina said. “They weren’t listening.”

Molina watched as his staff was quickly overpowered. The lifeguard on the tower was thrown into the water, followed by a locker room attendant. Molina said he was grabbed as he tried to make it to his office to dial 911. He was punched and thrown in the water, he said, and the armed security guards were unable to stop the crowd.

{snip}

At last week’s meeting, the task force vowed to come up with a comprehensive plan to guarantee safety at the 109th Street pool.

At Monday’s meeting, the plan focused on what it would now take to reopen the pool.

“You can’t open it,” insisted Roderick Wright, a task force member and Democratic candidate favored to win a state Senate seat in November. He added that the concerns of safety and liability weighed heavily on any decision to reopen.

The city would also face the task of staffing the pool. Molina and others refuse to return, insisting it is no longer safe. “The children in the neighborhood can’t enjoy the pool,” he said. “They need to empty the pool and never open it again.”

{snip}

The task force decided to look into tightening restrictions at the pool, better communication of rules of behavior, and enlisting the aid of older men who are respected in the community—the kind of efforts that have made a success out of a nearby midnight basketball league. They talked about imposing age limits, requiring swimsuits and even providing snacks for the children.

[nessuno]

It would break my heart to see people swimming under the Unisphere in Flushing Meadow Park.
It must be worse now because I haven't been there in years.
Swimming in fountains. 
If the pool is like a bathtub...is a fountain like a shower?

[cjd]

It would break my heart to see people swimming under the Unisphere in Flushing Meadow Park.
It must be worse now because I haven't been there in years.
Swimming in fountains. 
If the pool is like a bathtub...is a fountain like a shower?

The city cant even put water into some of the fountains in the park anymore because they become an unofficial pool. I would love to see the Unisphere  have water surrounding it once again. It really is a sin that the city can't use some of the wonderful icons as they were intended because 3 world filthy animals want to use them as a bathtub.

[TheCoon]

True, who would wanna go in a pool after a bunch of [censored] have peed and [censored] in it?

[EffIran]

i would probably commit suicide rather than swim in an overcrowded "all-black" pool. 

[Dan]

*Dermatologist recommended! 






*business up 2000% during summer season