Need to Cool Down? Take the Plunge

In case you have ever wondered what it is like to be inside a dumpster, there's good news: New York City will have three dumpster pools on the east side of Park Avenue between 40th and 41st Streets for the first three Saturdays in August as part of the City's Summer Streets initiative.

Fortunately these pools come at no cost to the City, which recently cut education, thousands of jobs, and adult literacy services in its $63 billion budget. Macro-Sea, a company based in Brooklyn, is converting the containers to above-ground pools. Each pool is roughly 8 feet wide and 22 feet long with a sloped bottom between 3 and 5 ½ feet deep. Sadly there are no diving boards. There is no baby pool, either - much to the disappointment of Puddy Island. Each pool is encircled by a five-foot-wide metal deck with a nonstick rubber surface and accompanied by several changing-room cabanas, portable showers, and portable toilets.

Get out those speedos and water wings and make it over to the dumpster pools next Saturday!