The Bay Area is one step closer to getting its first public floating pool, though challenges remain for the waterfront development just south of the Bay Bridge. Sen. Scott Wiener, a Democrat from San ...

In the summer of 2010, prominent designers, architects, and environmentalists around New York City received a small paper booklet in the mail filled with realistic renderings of a cross-shaped ...

As recently as the 1940s, New Yorkers swam in floating pools in the Hudson and East rivers. A safer alternative to swimming directly in the river, the municipal baths kept residents cool in hot summer ...

This watery venture just scored a formal street address in the middle of the East River. Futuristic floating swimming-hole project Plus Pool (+ Pool) has officially been given a city-approved location ...

Dubbed the Floating Pool Lady after the nickname its founder was given at community-board meetings during its approval process (as in “Here comes the floating-pool lady”), this ...