Photograph by George Steinmetz @geosteinmetz / @thephotosociety McCarren Pool was the eighth of eleven giant pools built by the #WorksProgressAdministration and opened in 1936. The city’s first outdoor public swimming pools were attached to baths and dated from the turn of the twentieth century; before that, there were floating baths in the Hudson and East Rivers. | Viewing NYC

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Photograph by George Steinmetz @geosteinmetz / @thephotosociety McCarren Pool was the eighth of eleven giant pools built by the #WorksProgressAdministration and opened in 1936. The city’s first outdoor public swimming pools were attached to baths and dated from the turn of the twentieth century; before that, there were floating baths in the Hudson and East Rivers.