{"id":2599,"date":"2007-08-08T12:48:10","date_gmt":"2007-08-08T20:48:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2007\/08\/its_nothing_a_little_whirlpooling_wont_fix.html"},"modified":"2007-08-08T12:48:10","modified_gmt":"2007-08-08T20:48:10","slug":"its_nothing_a_l","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2007\/08\/its_nothing_a_l.html","title":{"rendered":"It&#8217;s Nothing A Little Whirlpooling Won&#8217;t Fix . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oh lord &#8212; it really is over. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.observer.com\/2007\/coolest-pool\">Gentrification hits the city pools<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>As the August heat settles over the city, more and more cash-poor young creative professionals have been visiting the Olympic-sized public pool in Red Hook, walking the long desolate industrial blocks from the F train or using a friend&#8217;s car to change into their string bikinis. At the door, a long list of prohibited items includes cellphones and iPods &#8212; meaning pool-goers actually have to (gasp) socialize with their fellow New Yorkers.<\/p>\n<p>These hipsters tend to congregate in the southwest corner of the pool courtyard, isolating themselves from the splashing local families. They read trashy magazines and Atlas Shrugged. They take a dip &#8212; some even swimming a few laps. They have found their summertime Mecca.<\/p>\n<p>Kit Giordano, 26, who works at development at Miramax Films, was there on a recent warm Saturday wearing a navy blue bikini top from J. Crew and light-blue board shorts, looking through one script, another at her feet. Next to her rested a bottle of SPF 30 sunblock, a Nalgene beverage container that read &#8220;Lefties Do It Right&#8221; and a Princeton classmate, Erin Culbertson, now a law student, who was paging through Entertainment Weekly. &#8220;We&#8217;re thinking about doing some handstands,&#8221; Ms. Culbertson said.<\/p>\n<p>Further along rested Amy Donaldson, a 37-year-old graphic designer generously slathered in SPF 45 who had shlepped from the Upper West Side to meet some friends. &#8220;We were just talking about the elasticity of our bathing suits,&#8221; she said. Ms. Donaldson praised the comparatively &#8220;mellow&#8221; atmosphere of the Red Hook retreat. &#8220;There are a greater variety of people at this pool, as opposed to Lasker Pool, where there are more people from Harlem,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p>. . .<\/p>\n<p>Julee Resendez, 36, was prone, stomach-down, on a white blanket with pink roses, wearing huge oval sunglasses, bright red fingernails and a black sparkly bikini and reading The Fortress of Solitude, by Jonathan Lethem. Underneath her arm was concealed a verboten cellphone. &#8220;I&#8217;m very clever,&#8221; she said. Ms. Resendez, originally from Seattle, now lives in Bed-Stuy. &#8220;The hood,&#8221; she said.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oh lord &#8212; it really is over. Gentrification hits the city pools: As the August heat settles over the city, more and more cash-poor young creative professionals have been visiting the Olympic-sized public pool in Red Hook, walking the long desolate industrial blocks from the F train or using a friend&#8217;s car to change into [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brooklyn","category-there_goes_the_neighborhood"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2599\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}