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Big splash, big mess: New Central Park pool opens as a ‘disaster’ with fights, hours-long lines and crowds, New Yorkers say
amNY ^ | July 9, 2025 | Barbara Russo-Lennon and Lloyd Mitchell

Posted on 07/11/2025 11:27:51 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican

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1 posted on 07/11/2025 11:27:51 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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The Rollman Rink was saved by Trump. You had to rent skates or have your own. Helps keep out the riff raff.


2 posted on 07/11/2025 11:31:53 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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Looks like it’s about 90% “diverse”.


3 posted on 07/11/2025 11:32:20 AM PDT by aquila48 (Do not let them make you "care" ! Guilting you is how they. control you. )
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Is it them Yogi ?


4 posted on 07/11/2025 11:32:24 AM PDT by Craftmore
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Kramer solved this by swimming in the East River. :)


5 posted on 07/11/2025 11:32:59 AM PDT by xp38
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Like a Carnival Cruise without having to leave New York.


6 posted on 07/11/2025 11:33:29 AM PDT by KarlInOhio (I refuse to call the left "progressive" because I do not see slavery to the government as progress.)
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More info here:

https://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/central-park/facilities/outdoor-pools/gottesman-pool-at-the-davis-center

Sorry to say that, given the location, anyone who goes swimming here ought to know what they might encounter...


7 posted on 07/11/2025 11:34:23 AM PDT by mononymous
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They pee in the pool.


8 posted on 07/11/2025 11:35:15 AM PDT by DIRTYSECRET
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...No joke, there was like a two-inch slick over the top of the entire pool...

Suntan oil, right? Right?

9 posted on 07/11/2025 11:35:35 AM PDT by Billthedrill
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The line just to get in, since it’s completely free


there are two lines:

Line 1: Free stuff until it runs out.

Line 2: stuff you have to pay for but it doesn’t run out.


10 posted on 07/11/2025 11:37:19 AM PDT by PeterPrinciple (Thinking Caps are no longer being issued, but there must be a warehouse full of them somewhere)
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“… there was like a two-inch slick over the top of the entire pool,” one pool-goer said. “I literally wretched looking at it.”

I’m ready to barf thinking about it. There’s people inadvertently drinking that slime.


11 posted on 07/11/2025 11:37:25 AM PDT by Made In The USA (One and Two and Three and Four and)
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The Rollman Rink was saved by Trump. You had to rent skates or have your own. Helps keep out the riff raff.

I won't go to the pool unless they're charging $50 for admission.

12 posted on 07/11/2025 11:38:11 AM PDT by MinorityRepublican
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It’s difficult to keep a pool’s Ph balanced and bacteria levels controlled. Can’t imagine the condition of a pool that size and that overcrowded. Would be easy for the health dept. to shut down. And that’s saying nothing about the restrooms or locker rooms, which usually are even worse. — former lifeguard


13 posted on 07/11/2025 11:40:14 AM PDT by twister881
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RE: slime on the pool overnight....

From one of my favorite movies, The Magic Christian (Peter Sellers, Ringo Starr, Racquel Welch).

The point is the businessmen and investors in their suits will dive into a vat of slime to get money.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Xg2v_T2XH8


14 posted on 07/11/2025 11:40:52 AM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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The morons who conceived of this operation need to be treated with tar and feathers....


15 posted on 07/11/2025 11:41:08 AM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is rabble-rising Sam Adams now that we need him? Is his name Trump, now?)
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Not to mention tossing a Baby Ruth bar into it.


16 posted on 07/11/2025 11:41:51 AM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls. )
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Everyody on the pee pool water warm.


17 posted on 07/11/2025 11:44:47 AM PDT by Vaduz
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Just one of the many advantages of living on an anthill.


18 posted on 07/11/2025 11:46:27 AM PDT by johniegrad
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Now we know why Carnival doesn’t particularly want the ghetto on their ships anymore.


19 posted on 07/11/2025 11:47:06 AM PDT by Enterprise ( These people have no honor, no belief, no poetry, no art, no humor, no patriotism.)
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Go to a pool in NY City. Beware of what you bring home with you.


20 posted on 07/11/2025 11:47:42 AM PDT by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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