nyc pool parties ‘09

Trying to get wet this summer but you’ll be across the country from FMLY’s Beach Dazed? Well thankfully the filling of McCarren Park Pool doesn’t mean that our pool parties won’t continue into ‘09! Jelly NYC and affiliates have relocated our beloved summer staple to the Williamsburg Waterfront and joining the festivites will be Grizzly Bear, Girl Talk, HEALTH, Dan Deacon, Deerhunter, Ponytail, and more jawdropping artists. View from the new location above, current schedule below, New York Times article of what happened to the McCarren Pool shows after the jump.

Ponytail – Beg Waves (live Daytrotter Sesh)
Fucked Up – No Epiphany (No Age remix)
Dan Deacon – Padding Ghost
HEALTH – Lost Time (Pictureplane RMX)
Girl Talk – I’m Ill
Deerhunter – Rainwater Cassette Exchange
Simian Mobile Disco – I Believe
Grizzly Bear – Two Weeks (live on David Letterman)
Beach House – Some Things Last A Long Time
Mission of Burma – Dead Pool

Sunday, July 12 — Mission of Burma, Fucked Up and Ponytail (FREE)
Sunday, July 19 — Magnolia Electric Co., Dirty Projectors and TBA (FREE)
Sunday, July 26 — Health (FREE)
Sunday, Aug 02 — Dan Deacon, No Age & Deerhunter (FREE)
Sunday, Aug 09 — Simian Mobile Disco DJ set & TBA (FREE)
Sunday, Aug 16 — TBA
Sunday, Aug 23 — Girl Talk, Max Tundra and Wiz Khalifa (FREE)
Sunday, Aug 30 — Beach House & Grizzly Bear (FREE)

McCarren Park Pool, the crumbling, Depression-era public swimming pool on the border between Williamsburg and Greenpoint in Brooklyn, is set to become a swimming spot again, but the concerts that put it on the rock map over the last three summers are set to move to the Williamsburg waterfront. Stephanie Thayer, executive director of the Open Space Alliance for North Brooklyn, a nonprofit group that coordinated last year’s concerts, said that a strip along the East River between North Eighth and North Ninth Streets that was designated a New York State park a few years ago will have concerts this summer, with room for 6,000 fans. The news was confirmed by the office of State Assemblyman Joseph R. Lentol, who represents Greenpoint and Williamsburg. “This is the continuation of McCarren Park Pool,” Ms. Thayer said. “It’s different, but it has its own exquisite beauty, with the waterfront and the skyline of Manhattan.” She added that she plans to work with many of the promoters who put on events at the pool, but that if enough sponsorship money comes through, she hopes to also put on classical and opera concerts as well. Ms. Thayer, who in addition to her role with the Open Space Alliance is an administrator with the City Parks Department, said that renovations on McCarren Pool were set to begin on schedule this summer. [via NY Times]