Designing the New McCarren Pool Tonight

It's worth noting that there's an important planning session in Williamsburg tonight about redesigning McCarren Pool. In the words of an email encouraging participation, "This is your opportunity to sit down with your neighbors and give your input to what the future McCarren Park Pool should be. The architect for the redesign will be chosen in the coming days and will be on hand for the charette."

The meeting is sponsored by Community Board #1, The Open Space Alliance (OSA), and the Parks Department. There are sessions at 5PM and at 7PM. It takes place at the Swinging 60's Senior Citizen Center, which is located at 211 Ainslie Street. The Park Department will summarize the schedule for the project and discuss the budget. There will be small discussion groups and "each table will have a large scale plan of the pool area, templates of an Olympic size pool, a multi-purpose building, tracing paper, markers, etc." The designs are supposed to provide swimming, year-round use and preserve and re-use existing buildings.