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New York City's public pools have long been community hubs, serving as recreational and educational venues for thousands of New Yorkers. As temperatures rise, public pools also serve as important cooling centers.
Last week, New York City Mayor Eric Adams and New York City Parks and Recreation Commissioner Sue Donahue Announced A new initiative to build more public pools and improve existing infrastructure across the five boroughs. “Let's Swim NYC” represents more than $1 billion investment in aquatics infrastructure, the largest since the 1970s.
In response to this initiative, a Brooklyn non-profit organization Inclusive Community Wellness Inc. They are urging New York City officials to reconsider a proposal to build an Olympic-quality flagship facility in the city, ideally in Queens or Brooklyn.
The nonprofit focuses on promoting fitness and health education to underserved communities throughout the New York City metropolitan area.
“The proposed Olympic competition pool would attract world-class swimming, water polo and artistic swimming teams and competitions, enhance the city's swimming culture and also address the shortage of indoor swimming facilities in the city,” the commission said. Petition To New York City officials:
City and state collaboration will create opportunities for New Yorkers with limited access to swimming pools.
“We're not saying let's put a pool at Rockefeller Center,” said Michael Randazzo, executive director of Inclusive Community Wellness.
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“We will provide as many programs as we can for free with the understanding that if we want to host competitions there will be a fee,” Randazzo said. “We have to come up with a sustainable model to host high school swim meets and college water polo matches,” he added.
In the wake of the pandemic, many parents are struggling to sign their children up for swimming lessons, and this pool will help solve this problem by providing water safety training courses and swimming lessons to children and adults from disadvantaged areas.
The Olympic Pool hopes to improve swimming culture in New York City.
As of now, the next step is to submit a proposal to New York City officials, from which the project could be ready as soon as next summer.
“We then have an in-depth discussion about what they want from us, how we can meet their regulatory requirements and prove that we are the kind of partner they want to work with,” Lazuno said.
This effort has been ongoing for more than 20 years.
“We are again trying to reduce costs, shorten timelines and create solutions that can be implemented quickly,” Lazuno said.
If all goes according to plan, New York City will finally have an Olympic swimming pool to rival any capital city in the world.
