ZD: I read the NYT article and you’re right about the women’s hours being cut and men’s in Crown Heights eliminated. I had known there was a pool in Crown Heights that had men’s hours but I wasn’t aware it was a Park’s Dept. pool. Apparently, it took the city a while to figure it out as well…
And cutting the men’s hours in Crown Heights is a shame, since there are no men’s pool hours now in a huge chunk of Brooklyn. All you guys should be up in arms, especially in Crown Heights. It seems men are the new minority. Welcome to NYC…
The city is also opening the door for MORE women’s hours at other pools if they get 200 petitions and there’s no pool with separate women’s hours close by. Again, nothing about men.
And ZD, just send those gevirim a memo that they should put down a couple of million for a pool, I’m sure it’s no biggie…
Seriously speaking, membership for the private pool & gym in BP is not cheap, annual membership is four times that of membership for ALL NYC centers including pools. NYC centers are free for children, and only 25 bucks a year for seniors.
So you can ask those gevirim while you’re at it to subsidize it’s maintenance as well, as apparently we can’t get any such benefits from our tax money.