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The McCarren Park pool
1936
McCarren Park, Greenpoint
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One of eleven enormous outdoor pools the Works Progress Administration opened across the city in a single summer, it could hold thousands of swimmers at once. It was shut in 1984, spent years as a ruin used for concerts, and reopened as a pool in 2012.
That was 1 of the hidden places.
Location: documented spot
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