Parks Department Survey on the McCarren Park Pool
Please take the survey if you are at all concerned about restoring a vital neighborhood resource. There’s a lot of attention being given to the survey from the indie music community, which is all well and good, but most of them don’t live in the area, and frankly there already more than enough concert venues in New York City.
While I’m happy to see the pool space being used instead of lying dormant, and acknowledge that the concerts at the Pool have brought the McCarren Park Pool into mainstream consciousness, I don’t see it being a major loss to the music community, or to the community, if in future concerts are not the main focus of the space. I don’t think it’s the greatest concert venue ever, and don’t want to see a neighborhood resource co-opted by people who don’t live in the neighborhood.
I realize this makes me sound like a cranky old fart, and I probably am one to some extent, but *people* live here - families, old people, single people, new immigrants - NOT just hipsters. I don’t want to see the pool turned into a hipster oasis because just plain folks didn’t take the time to make their voices heard, while the indie rock blogosphere rallies the troops and makes the Parks Dept. think that everyone would just be fine if concerts were the main activity at the Pool.
So if you live in the neighborhood, please take the time to fill out the survey. Please.
