The Great Unwashed

"“This is the coolest place to people-watch,” said Bryan Murphy, 20, a University of Connecticut student who commutes to the pool on the 85-minute Metro North train from Bridgeport. “People in Brooklyn are different than people anywhere else. They just look different.”

- The NY Times looks at the waning summer days of Brooklyn's McCarren Park Pool as a multi-use venue (rock shows, sweating, etc), before it gets prettied up for swimming pool fun (expected by 2011 - let's not work too quickly, eh fellas?). Ah, the chlorine!

How the pool used to look some years ago....