+ POOL, a proposed floating pool whose walls will filter millions of gallons of the East River daily, is all the rage with New Yorkers now as its Kickstarter gets over 40% funded in the past week.

Floating pools may come to a body of water near you under a new proposal from Gov. Kathy Hochul. Hochul announced on Friday that the state would make available $60 million in competitive grants for ...

An artist's rendering shows a cross-section of the Plus Pool floating off of Brooklyn on New York's East River. Courtesy / + POOL On Friday, at 10:30 a.m. EDT, a Kickstarter campaign will end for the ...

A floating pool is coming to the East River — but New Yorkers won’t be able to swim in it anytime soon. The idea has been pitched for more than a decade by the group +POOL and gained traction earlier ...

After years of planning, a floating swimming pool in the East River may be closer to becoming a reality. The non-profit group Friends of +POOL is testing a filtration system that will filter out ...

The story behind +POOL, a plan for New York City’s first floating filtering pool, is already of those great urban stories of regular folks with big ideas and perseverance in droves. Beginning with a ...

New York City is one step closer to welcoming an unusual new landmark: an Olympic-length public pool floating in the East River. After more than 10 years of crowdfunding, testing and campaigning, the ...

Could the world’s first floating, water-filtering pool be coming to your nabe? +POOL has been inching closer to its dream of building a plus-shaped swimming pool that would let New Yorkers swim in ...