New York, NY on South of Union Square

South of Union Square

Jackie Robinson Park and Pool · 85 Bradhurst Avenue

Jackie Robinson Park and Pool

Harlem; Colonial Park Swimming Pool, Harlem.

From

Museum of the City of New York

Olympic Pool in Colonial Park (now Jackie Robinson Park), Harlem, 1939.

The Colonial Park pool was one of eleven public swimming pools opened during the summer of 1936, at the direction of Robert Moses and funded by the WPA. Its opening ceremony drew 25,000 spectators.

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