By Della Hasselle
DNAinfo Reporter/Producer
MIDTOWN — Soon, Manhattanites will have a chance to go swimming and Dumpster diving at the same time.
For the first three Saturdays in August, the Bloomberg administration will offer the same Dumpster-converted-pools that were offered in Brooklyn last year on Park Avenue, between 40th and 41st streets.
"While they have been lovingly referred to as Dumpster pools, don’t let the name fool you," Janette Sadik-Khan, the city’s transportation commissioner, told the New York Times. "These are clean, compliant mobile pools that will put even more ‘park’ into Park Avenue. It will almost be like a Park Avenue boardwalk."
The summer splash is a part of the Summer Streets project, now in its third year in New York.
The pools will be encircled by a five-foot-wide metal deck with a nonstick rubber surface, and will come with changing-room cabanas, portable showers, and portable toilets, the Times reports.
The pools will be open from 7 a.m. to 1 p.m. They range in size up to 22-feet wide, making them much larger than the typical Dumpsters. The Dumpster pools will not be accompanied by diving boards and there won't be any baby pools, the Times reported.
The Dumpster pools were designed by Brooklyn company Macro-Sea, and will have a water filtration system and a permit from the Department of Health, the company’s president David Belt told the Times.
