Science and Technology of New York City

Yee, Vivian. “For a Second New Pool in Brooklyn, Less Fanfare and No Drama.” New York Times. 6 July 2012. Web. 17 Oct. 2012. < http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/06/for-a-second-new-pool-in-brooklyn-less-fanfare-and-no-drama/>

Vivian Yee is a blogger for the City Room section of the New York Times. In her article, she examines the opening days of the second pool in Brooklyn Bridge Park. Furthermore, she evaluates the pool in terms of access, crowdedness, and residential satisfaction. Park officials expected the pool to be crowded on the first few days after the opening, but they did not observe the results as they expected. In addition, people are satisfied with the beach-like scenery and the handling of crowded. In fact, some residents that lived nearby the park consider the pool as their own backyard pool. The small size of the pool has been criticized. For instance, the small size does not compensate the overcrowdedness, but the size allows better monitoring for lifeguards. The intended audience of the article is the park officials, in which they can see whether or not improvements can be made to provide satisfaction to park users or to address concerns made regarding the pool. Furthermore, residents would be informed of what to expect in this newly opened pool. The slant of the article is towards local residents and park users since the article gathers more opinions on those who have used the pool and on those that live nearby.

The article focuses more on the social aspect of sustainability since it describes the perspective of park users and local residents on the pool. The weakness to the article is that there’s a lack of background information on the new pool. Even though the primary focus of the article is to provide the overall feeling of the new pool, the author could have provided some sort of background information behind the creation of the pool. Providing a bit of feedback from various sources, such as from Adrian Benepe, the commissioner of the city’s Department of Parks and Recreation, and local residents, is considered a strength to this article because it diversifies the feedback on the pool. Furthermore, another strength is that the article itself is informative since it provides description of the area itself and what could one expect on a busy day. Overall, the article definitely relates to the Brooklyn Bridge Park project since the pool is located inside the park. In addition, as mentioned before, the article provides a description of a summer day at the new pool. Therefore, I can keep in mind a picture of what is being described and see if that picture matches with what I see during the visit to the park. Also, it would be useful to keep note of the features of the park to see what the park has to offer to various groups of people and that it may be possible that the area has changed over time. Therefore, these changes over time can be noted down.

Post by Geoffrey Mercene