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Author Buttenwieser, Ann L., 1935- author.

Title The Floating Pool Lady : a quest to bring a public pool to New York City's waterfront / Ann L. Buttenwieser
Published Ithaca [New York] : Three Hills, an imprint of Cornell University Press, 2021

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Description 1 online resource
Series Book collections on Project MUSE
Contents Swim Annie, swim! -- Fire and water -- The eureka moment -- Waterfront in despair -- Hoboken ho -- Finding C -- Contracts and crawdads -- Kafka on the pier -- Perspective matters -- The Orwellian bureaucracy -- The big jump -- The lady moves to the Bronx -- Swim, New York City's children, swim
Summary "Waterfront planner, urban historian, and parks advocate Ann Buttenwieser looked to New York City's nineteenth-century past to find inspiration for a floating pool that would bring New Yorkers back to their waterfront and give them the experience of swimming in water on water"-- Provided by publisher
Analysis Urban waterfront planning, new york city history, Manhattan waterfront, bronx waterfront
new york city waterfront, Baretto Point Park
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 29, 2021)
Subject Floating Pool Lady (Barge) -- History
Swimming pools -- Social aspects -- New York (State) -- New York
Public baths -- New York (State) -- New York -- History
Public baths
New York (State) -- New York
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2020040006
ISBN 9781501716034
1501716034
9781501716027
1501716026