The NY Times reported today on outdoor swimming pools in Manhattan residential buildings:
LIKE iced tea, perhaps, or casual Fridays, outdoor pools are in many minds forever linked with summer. After all, the sensation of sun on wet skin after a few dips in the deep end just about sums up the season.
But that pleasure is denied to most apartment-dwellers in New York City. If their building has a pool at all, it is probably of the enclosed kind.
Of the approximately 150 pools in residential buildings in Manhattan, only about 15 are outside, according to the citys Department of Health and Mental Hygiene; some of those 15 are in private town houses….
Roosevelt Island’s two outdoor swimming pools were not mentioned in the article. At Manhattan Park
Image of Manhattan Park Swimming Pooland the Octagon.
Image From Octagon NYC The Manhattan Park pool is open to anyone who joins the Pool Club. The Octagon Pool is only for those who live in the building and their guests. Roosevelt Island indoor swimming pools are also available at the Rivercross and Westview buildings as well as in Sportspark. More on Roosevelt Island swimming from the RI Marlins and t hese previous posts. UPDATE 8/9 – According to the Roosevelt Island Operating Corp ( RIOC ), the Westview Pool is open to all Roosevelt Island residents with pool memberships but the Rivercross pool is only open to building residents.