“At this rate it looks like the building will be condemned.” “This is major structural work that needs to be done, netting is like putting a Band-Aid on it,” Puleo said. The concrete over the pool is “spalling” - flaking into pieces - potentially because of variations in humidity and temperature or improper placement of concrete, Parks Department officials acknowledge. Lockers appear broken, while toilet fixtures are sealed with duct tape. Images obtained by THE CITY show water stains spreading on the walls of the main pool room, also seeping into concrete floors around the bleachers. “Basically it’s a waste of taxpayer dollars,” Puleo said. Today, when it rains the building leaks in the lobby and pool area, according to Joe Puleo, president of DC 37’s Local 983, the union representing some workers at the facility. “No one wants a white elephant, built for the Olympics but useless after that,” said a rep from the project’s Geiger Engineers at the time. New York City Department of Parks and RecreataionĪ steel industry magazine in 2007 touted the cable-stay roof as “highly efficient,” protecting the pool’s supporting structure from the corrosive effects of chlorine as well as allowing walls to expand to accommodate spectator seating. Chunks of concrete falling from the ceiling are to blame, the Parks Department says. That netting is now permanently in place over the drained 50-meter pool, according to workers at the facility, which first opened its doors in 2008. The pool’s public entrance on the eastern edge of the park is now padlocked, with handwritten signs reading “Pool is closed, sorry” pasted on the front doors. 13, 2020, for what the Department of Parks and Recreation described as “emergency repairs” after the roof started shedding concrete.Īt the time, the department said in a press release, “the pool will be closed to the public for at least six weeks,” with “extensive ceiling netting” to be installed over the pool and a neighboring ice rink. The Flushing Meadows Corona Park Aquatic Center was shuttered Jan. It’s one of six public indoor pools closed for maintenance even after the six others run by the city reopened last month following an 18-month COVID-spurred shutdown. A heralded Queens public pool central to New York City’s failed 2012 Olympic bid has been shuttered since before the pandemic - while as many as a dozen workers show up daily without swimmers to serve.
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