![]() ![]() Parks Spokesperson Dan Kastanis told THE CITY the department plans to reopen the pool around January 2023, before closing it again for 12 to 18 months starting in the summer of 2024 for a complete reconstruction of its roof along with its HVAC and dehumidification systems. Yet the Parks Department capital project tracker shows the $500,000 fix marked as “0% complete.” Council Bills Would Make it Easier to Open Public School Pools Year-RoundĬonstruction work on the floor began this September.Vaunted $67M Flushing Pool to Finally Reopen for a Quick Dip - Then Close Again.“This part of the building is closed, that’s why we have this thing here,” Ashley Bernal, the facility’s deputy director, told THE CITY as she pointed to a black belt cordoning off a section of the chlorine-scented lobby. ![]() Whirling machine sounds reverberated from the direction of the pool when THE CITY visited the center on Tuesday as a father rushed in looking for a swim meet for his two children waiting in the car - only to be told he was at the wrong location. But while the emergency roof repair was completed in July 2021, the pool remains closed with the Department’s site now reporting that the closure is “due to needed repairs to the movable floor” that’s designed to move up and down to accommodate diving as well as swimming. Parks said in a City Council oversight hearing last December that the pool at the 14-year-old, $67 million facility - built as part of New York City’s unsuccessful bid to host the 2012 Olympics - would reopen by January or February 2022. Nearly three years after the Flushing Meadows Corona Aquatic Center’s Olympic-caliber pool closed for what was supposed to be “at least six weeks” for an emergency roof repair, it remains off limits to the public as the Department of Parks and Recreation struggles to repair its unique movable floor. ![]()
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