The floating pool lady : a quest to bring a public pool to New York City's waterfront / / Ann L. Buttenwieser [[electronic resource]]

• Autore: Buttenwieser Ann L. <1935->
• Pubblicazione: Ithaca : , : Three Hills, , 2021
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xii, 290 pages ) : : illustrations
• Disciplina: 797.20097471
• Soggetto topico: Swimming pools - Social aspects - New York (State) - New York; Public baths - New York (State) - New York - History
• Soggetto non controllato: Urban waterfront planning, new york city history, Manhattan waterfront, bronx waterfront; new york city waterfront, Baretto Point Park
• Note generali: Also issued in print: 2021.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: Why on earth would anyone want to float a pool up the Atlantic coastline to bring it to rest at a pier on the New York City waterfront? In 'The Floating Pool Lady', Ann L. Buttenwieser recounts her triumphant adventure that started in the bayous of Louisiana and ended with a self-sustaining, floating swimming pool moored in New York Harbour. When Buttenwieser decided something needed to be done to help revitalize the New York City waterfront, she reached into the city's nineteenth-century past for inspiration. Buttenwieser wanted New Yorkers to reestablish their connection to their riverine surroundings and she was energized by the prospect of city youth returning to the Hudson and East Rivers. What she didn't suspect was that outfitting and donating a swimming facility for free enjoyment by the public would turn into an almost-Sisyphean task.
• Titolo autorizzato: The floating pool lady
• ISBN: 1-5017-1601-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910554500703321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Cornell scholarship online.