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Your Guide to Swimming Without Leaving Manhattan

By DNAinfo Staff on July 30, 2010 3:45pm  | Updated on July 31, 2010 10:04am

By Olivia Scheck

DNAinfo Reporter/Producer

MANHATTAN — Looking for ways to beat the brutal heat? Willing to do anything — short of moving to the suburbs — to get your body into a pool?

DNAinfo has compiled a map of the Manhattan non-member swimming holes to help facilitate your much-needed urban submersion.

Those looking for a stylish rooftop outing can spring for the Hotel Gansevoort’s Renewal Day Package ($250), which includes a massage or facial, exercise class and access to their ultra-hip outdoor pool high above the Meatpacking District.

If you'd prefer something not in the high-rent district, then check out the slightly less glamorous Holiday Inn rooftop pool and sundeck ($60) on West 57th Street or the Waterside Plaza health club in Kips Bay. Just $20 ($10 for kids) will buy you a day-pass to the residential complex’s indoor pool, sundeck and gym equipment.

Finally, people who already blew their extra cash on an air conditioner can enjoy any of the city’s public outdoor pools for the can’t-beat-it price of $0 through Labor Day weekend.

Highbridge Park pool up in Washington Heights is practically oceanic in size, and the Tony Dapolito Rec. Center pool stands out as urban oasis on the border of the West Village and Greenwich Village.