- Three pools in place (Macro-Sea’s portable Dumpster pools) between E. 40th and E. 41st Street on Park Ave. open to the public on the next three Saturdays, when Park Ave. is closed as part of the city’s annual Summer Streets program
Dumpster-diving made a splash Saturday – on Park Ave., of all places.
Three former garbage receptacles transformed into swimming pools created some summer fun for hundreds of New Yorkers, who lined up in the middle of Midtown to take the plunge.
“It was a little chilly but fun and kind of magical,” said Lenna Nepomnyaschy, 43, a Manhattan professor.
“Just the fact that there’s Grand Central (station) right there, and you’re in the pool – it’s surreal,” added Nepomnyaschy. “I have another suggestion for Mayor Bloomberg – hot tubs in the winter.”
The pool party – complete with cabanas, hammocks and bean bag chairs – is part of this year’s Summer Streets, where Park Ave. and surrounding streets are closed to car traffic from Central Park to the Brooklyn Bridge.
Summer Streets will continue for the next two Saturdays.
The unique pools were a hit earlier this summer, when Bill Murray Dumpster-dove into one on “The Late Show with David Letterman,” and yesterday they delighted ordinary New Yorkers.
“It was actually really fun,” said Laney Jaffe, 8. “I loved the pool. It was so fabulous.”
Chet Garner, 29, a Bronx medical school student, made the most of it. “We decided to go all out and see what we could do – in flippers and fins and snorkels and masks,” he said. “It was worth it.”
