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The Floating Pool Lady - A Quest to Bring a Public Pool to New York City's Waterfront (Hardcover)
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The Floating Pool Lady - A Quest to Bring a Public Pool to New York City's Waterfront (Hardcover)
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Why on earth would anyone want to float a pool up the Atlantic
coastline to bring it to rest at a pier on the New York City
waterfront? In The Floating Pool Lady, Ann L. Buttenwieser recounts
her triumphant adventure that started in the bayous of Louisiana
and ended with a self-sustaining, floating swimming pool moored in
New York Harbor. When Buttenwieser decided something needed to be
done to help revitalize the New York City waterfront, she reached
into the city's nineteenth-century past for inspiration.
Buttenwieser wanted New Yorkers to reestablish their connection to
their riverine surroundings and she was energized by the prospect
of city youth returning to the Hudson and East Rivers. What she
didn't suspect was that outfitting and donating a swimming facility
for free enjoyment by the public would turn into an
almost-Sisyphean task. As she describes in The Floating Pool Lady,
Buttenwieser battled for years with politicians and struggled with
bureaucrats as she brought her "crazy" scheme to fruition. From
dusty archives in the historic Battery Maritime Building to
high-stakes community board meetings to tense negotiations in the
Louisiana shipyard, Buttenwieser retells the improbable process
that led to a pool named The Floating Pool Lady tying up to a pier
at Barretto Point Park in the Bronx, ready for summer swimmers.
Throughout The Floating Pool Lady, Buttenwieser raises
consciousness about persistent environmental issues and the
challenges of developing a constituency for projects to make cities
livable in the twenty-first century. Her story and that of her
floating pool function as both warning and inspiration to those who
dare to dream of realizing innovative public projects in the modern
urban landscape.
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