Astoria Park Pool–Photo: NYC Parks Dept
June 27, 2017 By Christian Murray
The Astoria Park Pool opens Thursday along with 52 other outdoor New York City pools.
It is parks department tradition to open city pools the day after public schools close.
The Astoria Park Pool, located at 19th Street and 23rd Dr., will be open from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m., except for a cleaning break between 3 p.m. and 4 p.m., seven days a week.
NYC Parks Commissioner Mitchell J. Silver will join Councilman Costa Constantinides and local kids to celebrate its reopening with a traditional first jump in the pool.
Local musicians, senior swimmers and a water ballet team will also be at the Astoria pool to mark the occasion.
New this year, all NYC Parks outdoor pools will feature free sunscreen dispensers through expanded pilot program.
2 Comments
I live in Astoria. Everyone I know won’t go near this pool. I saw someone poop in the pool and it was IN the pool for nearly an hour before someone finally told everyone to get out. They have no way of cleaning this pool so don’t get sick going to it!
The park is beautiful and overall clean until the pool opens up every summer. Its such a shame that the park/pool goers are not more considerate when it comes to keeping the park clean. They dump their trash everywhere and traffic is chaotic during the summer pool season. I am thankful though that that BQX streetcar system has been put on halt. Can you imagine the people and chaos it would bring since it would run from Brklyn to Astoria Park.