It’s a beautiful vision for a city surrounded by water: On a sweltering day in New York, you emerge from the concrete canyons of Manhattan, reach the vast East River and dive in without a second ...

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 ...

A rendering of the Plus Pool in the East River — the actual test pool slated to open in 2025 will be smaller. Photo: + Pool I was doing water-quality measurements in New York and the founders came to ...

Seven years after pitching their idea, the young designers behind +Pool are ready to build. Is the city ready to let them? How a Giant Plus-Shaped Pool Could Make New York’s East River Safe For ...

For nearly a decade and a half, New Yorkers have awaited the arrival of a self-filtering, cross-shaped pool floating in the city’s East River after the proposal was partially crowdfunded and ...

There is finally a city-approved spot for the long-proposed floating Plus Pool to drop anchor in the East River, just north of the Manhattan Bridge on the Lower East Side. This is the first rendering ...