One of Brooklyn’s best loved swimming pools, the Douglass-Degraw pool in Gowanus, is slated to be closed this summer due to budget cuts. But, you can help save it this weekend! Put on your bathing suit (bikinis, speedos, yes!) and join Brooklyn Borough President Marty Markowitz (who will be donning his swimming trunks) and Councilmember Stephen Levin at a demonstration protesting the city’s decision to close of one Brooklyn’s most popular outdoor swimming pools, the Double D.
Please bring inflatable kiddie pools, goggles, and inner tubes, beach balls and handmade, colorful (“SAVE OUR POOL”) signs to show the media and elected officials your support for the Douglass-Degraw pool, which serves thousands of local residents and inner city kids.
Details: Sunday, June 20, 2010 at 10:00 AM at Thomas Greene Park in front of the Pool (Douglass Street between Nevins Street and 3rd Avenue)
Public pools will open for the season on June 29, and people are hoping that the Double D will open with them. There is a facebook group here: Don’t Close the Double D Pool that you can join with links to write public officials to protest the pool’s closing.