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McCarren Pool 2003/2004

Published on: June 11th, 2010 | Last updated: October 16, 2016 | Written by:

Wrapping up this week’s series is this set of photos from 2003 and 2004. As you can see, for some bizarre reason the NYC Parks Department wasted a lot of money and paint on priming the entire pool white, and then slapping another coat of deep red paint on the structure. It wasn’t long before people were tagging up here again though…

Tags in the diving pool, 2004

Pool Whitening, 2003

Pool Whitening, 2003

Mess of barbed wire.

Pool Whitening, 2003

Here you can see the lifeguard shack, side window flapping in the breeze.

2004, already being tagged again.

Diving pool before it was filled in.

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