The Floating Pool Lady : : A Quest to Bring a Public Pool to New York City's Waterfront / / Ann L. Buttenwieser.
Why on earth would anyone want to float a pool up the Atlantic coastline to bring it rest at a pier on the New York City waterfront? In The Floating Pool Lady, Ann L. Buttenwieser recounts the triumphant adventure that started in the bayous of Louisiana and ended with a self-sustaining, floating swi...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Ithaca, NY : : Cornell University Press, , [2021] ©2021 |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (304 p.) :; 4 maps, 24 color plates |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Acronyms and Abbreviations
- Members of the Floating Pool Crew
- Map 1. New York City and New Jersey’s Hudson River Waterfront. Courtesy of William Nelson.
- Prologue: Swim, Annie, Swim!
- 1. Fire and Water
- 2. The Eureka Moment
- 3. Waterfront in Despair
- 4. Hoboken Ho
- 5. Finding the C500
- 6. Contracts and Crawfish
- 7. Kafka on the Pier
- 8. Perspective Matters
- 9. The Orwellian Bureaucracy
- 10. The Big Jump
- 11. The Lady Moves to the Bronx
- Epilogue: Swim, New York City’s Children, Swim!
- Acknowledgments
- A Note from the Author
- Notes
- Selected Bibliography
- Key to map 2, the floating baths, page 22
- Index