This is some of the best news of the summer! The Double-D pool has been saved: and so have the hundreds of hot residents around the Gowanus, BoCoCa area that used it every summer.
The Brooklyn Paper reported, “The budget deal inked last night by the mayor and the City Council spared the hottest of the hot-button issues, ensuring that all city pools, including the Douglass-Degraw pool in Gowanus, will reopen on schedule on June 29. The budget deal inked last night by the mayor and the City Council spared the hottest of the hot-button issues, ensuring that all city pools, including the Douglass-Degraw pool in Gowanus, will reopen on schedule on June 29.”
Hooray! Great job to all the people that wrote, emailed, rallied and saved the Double D pool.
The article stated the importance of the flood of complaints: “I am thrilled to announce that the D and D Pool will open on time this season,” Councilman Steve Levin (D–Williamsburg) said in a statement. “Residents from Gowanus, Boerum Hill, Carroll Gardens, and Cobble Hill collected signatures, wrote letters, sent e-mails, and called my office to ask that the pool open this season.” Levin, whose district includes the pool, credited Councilman Domenic Recchia (D–Coney Island) and Council Speaker Christine Quinn for “working with me to find funds in the Council to keep the pool open.”