Wyckoff Gardens Lot Could Host Pop-Up Gowanus Public Pool: Report

GOWANUS, NY — A popular public swimming pool could be relocated to a parking lot of a NYCHA complex — which the city plans to build luxury buildings on — during the cleanup of the Gowanus Canal, the Brooklyn Paper reported.

Environmental Protection Agency officials announced a plan last week to temporarily move Gowanus' Double D pool to a lot next to Wyckoff Gardens in Boerum Hill. The original one inside Thomas Greene Playground needs to be drained and demolished to clear toxins from the soils as part of the federal cleanup of the Canal, the Brooklyn Paper reported.

However, the city planned to build a 16-story tower on the same lot and selected Arker Companies and Two Trees — whose owners raised a combined $124,000 for Mayor Bill de Blasio — earlier this year for the project.

Plans call for two 16-story buildings to take over the parking lots in the Boerum Hill complex that has 500-units, with half set aside for affordable housing.

The EPA did not say when the temporary pool would be built but there was enough space and time to build it along with the luxury towers, according to the Brooklyn Paper.

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