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• [1] courtney from lower manhattan June 13, 2008 - 12:48PM

  Floating Pool Lady rules! I plan to follow it from Brooklyn to the Bronx this summer.

  
  
• [2] chestinee June 13, 2008 - 12:50PM

  There used to be a floating pool in Paris - I htink it closed about 10 years ago?

  
  
• [3] alex from brooklyn June 13, 2008 - 12:52PM

  I saw a floating pool project in Berlin and they enclosed it in the winter. Has the pool lady thought about that?

  
  
• [4] bas from brooklyn June 13, 2008 - 12:52PM

  I spent the summer of 2003 with kids in Kopenhagen where they had a very beautiful one moored in the harbor- it was made of wood with two pools, open bottoms with nets - and

  a diving tower. Did your guest see it? It was so beautiful/

  
  
• [5] Tim from NYC June 13, 2008 - 01:08PM

  For more pictures of the Floating Pool Lady, go to www.timothyschenck.com .

  
  
• [6] Marc Naimark from Paris June 19, 2008 - 07:25AM

  @Chestinee: You probably won't see this post, but the old private Piscine Deligny has indeed been gone for quite a while. A new municipal floating pool, named after Josephine Baker, has been set up at the foot of the new National Library.

  It is much more sophisticated than the Floating Lady, including a fitness center.

  Alas, it was closed after a fire broke out in the fitness center, and it was discovered that the private operator of teh facility had no insurance. Soon after, the structure sprung a leak.

  It is currently being renovated, with extensive modifications. From what I can tell, one of the nice things about the original pool, a retractable glass roof, allowing it to be used in the winter, will no longer be part of the design (but I may be wrong).

  
  
• [7] Marc Naimark from Paris June 19, 2008 - 07:27AM

  Watch it sink here:

  http://youtube.com/watch?v=dgncM_AwnbI