The Landmarks Preservation Commission public hearing on the plan for McCarren Pool, a preliminary rendering of which is above, is going to be happening next week. Per info on the WGPA blog, it’ll be happening on Tuesday, 9 September. Since the pool was landmarked last year, the LPC has to approve the renovation plan. The [...]

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Here are a few vids posted to the YouTube of the Sonic Youth show at McCarren Pool, which was also the last big concert at the pool.

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Here’s a fun time lapse just posted to the YouTube of the stage at McCarren Pool being put together. The whole thing.

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Yes, the Pool Parties are McCarren Pool are but a memory (and about 100,000 Flickr photos), but the final Missed Connection they produced may be the best. It’s so good, we can’t let it sit until the Sunday of Labor Day Weekend when so many people won’t be paying attention:
Orville Redenbacher IV at Yo La [...]

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[Photo courtesy of Katie Lee Rush/Flickr]
For those that didn’t get a chance to say goodbye at the final JellyNYC show on Sunday or who aren’t going to be at the Sonic Youth show on the 30th (which will be a benefit for the Open Space Alliance), there will be a block party/community event at the [...]

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[All photos courtesy of Katie Lee Rush]
Indie rockers Yo La Tengo headlined yesterday’s final Sunday Pool Party at McCarren Pool, ending a series that’s filled Williamsburg with music on summer Sunday afternoons for three years. GL’s new Music Correspondent Katie Lee Rush shot all the photos above. She described the show as “crowded, but not [...]

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While it’s not the last concert at McCarren Pool, a short-lived, yet somewhat glorious era in the neighborhood’s history comes to an end this weekend with the final Pool Party produced by Jelly NYC. Yo La Tengo will close out the festivities. The show is actually a fundraiser for Barack Obama. Admission is free, but [...]

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[Photo courtesy of wzrdreams/GL Flickr Pool]
Here’s a gorgeous sunset captured earlier this week at McCarren Pool toward the end of the summer concert era.

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We were reminded of Topshop’s McCarren Pool “hipster galleries” by a post on Williamsboard that said “this made me feel a little bit dirty.” The link, in turn, led to the topshop website and the self-described “hipster galleries” about which we have nothing to add. Interestingly, however, after yesterday’s coverage of efforts to try to [...]

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[Photo courtesy of wzrdreams/GL Flickr Pool]
It’s a few days old, but we love this pick shot at the Wilco show at McCarren Pool the other night and put in our GL Flickr Pool by wzrdreams.

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Here are a few vids of Wilco performing at McCarren Pool last night.

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[Photo courtesy of Glasson/GL Flickr Pool]
It was only a few years ago that McCarren Pool was a kind of a scary spot, covered with graffiti and overgrown with weeds. All that’s changed now, but GL Flickr Pool contributor Glasson laid some nice pics on us to recall the good, old pre-hipster, pre-concert days at McCarren.

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[Image courtesy of i'mjustsayin/flickr]
The Liars played McCarren Pool yesterday and here’s a shot of Angus Andrew from the stage courtesy of i’mjustsayin. See the full set here.

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There’s nothing new about corporate marketing at McCarren Pool Parties, but retailer Topshop’s take has some interesting angles. First, they’ll have a “colored beach huts, mats and deck chairs in one corner of the pool and promo girls will prowl the area, armed with limited-edition beach blankets covered in Topshop hearts and some sort of [...]

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Lovers of movies and spending a warm summer night outdoors at McCarren Pool will be happy to find that L Magazine has released the new schedule for its Summer Screen series at the park.
July 8: Rushmore
July 15: The Virgin Suicides
July 22: Wet Hot American Summer
July 29: Desperately Seeking Susan
August 5: Mean Streets
August 12: 28 Days [...]

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Performers at Sunday Pool Parties at McCarren Pool this summer will include The Breeders, MGMT, The Hold Steady, Liars, Aesop Rock, Black Lips, Deerhunter, Fuck Buttons, Matt Kim, Black Moth Super Rainbow, Team Robespierre, The Loved Ones, Panther, King Khan and His Shrines, & Ting Tings. Details and schedule to come.–Brooklyn Vegan

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If you thought the proposal for a big underground power plant in Williamsburg that would be built by Transgas at the Bushwick Inlet was killed in 2006, you’re wrong. If you thought it died in 2007, well, you’re wrong again. The Power Plant with Nine Lives is still technically alive, and there is yet another [...]

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We finally got our hands yesterday on some high quality renderings of the Rogers Marvel plan for McCarren Pool in Greenpoint/Williamsburg and posted them on Curbed. (Full slide show below.) The renderings came with the caveat that they are “drafts” and the reminder that, of course, the Landmarks Preservation Commission has to sign off on [...]

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There’s another showing of the plans for McCarren Pool tonight (and, hopefully, the Parks Department and the architects will also soon release some high-quality renderings of its plans so that everyone in Brooklyn can see them).
As we noted last week, McCarren Pool is being returned to service as a pool, so the days of concerts [...]

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The rebuilt McCarren Pool will feature a huge swimming pool in summer and ice skating in winter, although this will be the last year for big concerts at the site. The details of the $50 million renovation were presented to a community meeting in Williamsburg. “I was very impressed at how sensitive they were to [...]

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The plans for McCarren Pool are coming. They’ll be discussed tonight at a meeting at 6:30 PM at The Lady of the Snow Society, which is located at 410 Graham Ave. (btwn Withers & Jackson Sts.). The Bloomberg Administration has committed $50 million for renovating the pool. The design is coming from Rogers & Marvel, [...]

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A survey to gauge sentiment about the future of McCarren Pool, which will be redesigned to include a working swimming pool, has been circulating for some time in Williamsburg and Greenpoint. It’s also been posted online, and if you’re interested in voicing your opinion about the pool’s future and what it should include, you can [...]

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[Photo courtesy of Jonny Leather/flickr & jonnyleather.com]We ended up a little beaten down by yesterday’s weather and skipped the TV on the Radio show at McCarren Pool, even though we were on the list to shoot it and we love the band. In any case, the pool had a bit more water than usual and [...]

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Some good news out of the Landmarks Preservation Commission meeting yestreday. The LPC has finally landmarked McCarren Pool, capping an effort to save the closed WPA-era pool that began in the 1990s. This is a good thing both because protection of the pool is now official and because any modifications, as per renovations that the [...]

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Here’s a short vid shot at this week’s Pool Party at McCarren Pool that shows a bit of Illinois performing, plus people dancing to Dengue Fever and Man Man.

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