Incidents at the McCarren Pool: A Timeline
Another day, another unfortunate piece of news coming from the McCarren pool. On Tuesday, a brawl at the filled-to-capacity pool devolved into several arrests, leading police at the pool to break out pepper spray. “There was a complete breakdown of control,” a witness told the Daily News. “It looked like these kids were running the show.”
Just three weeks after its re-opening, the pool is still emitting a nearly constant stream of news, most of it bad. What better time to take a brief, blood-and-chlorine-scented trip down McCarren Pool memory lane:
