Greenpoint’s McGarren Pool is the newest site for outdoor rock concerts. It joins the  city’s big summer music spaces  like SummerStage in Central Park, Celebrate
Brooklyn in Prospect Park and River to River in the plazas and parks of
Lower Manhattan.

"The pool was opened in 1936 during a monumental summer of public projects in New York. It was the middle of The Great Depression, and the Works Progress Administration opened a series of ten pools throughout the city. They were designed to provide recreation, generate employment, and get people’s minds off the economy.

The brainchild of Robert Moses, who was responsible one way or another for nearly all of the city’s open spaces, the network of pools would supplement the one existing public pool in the city and become an example of civic generosity.

Moses and Mayor LaGuardia opened one pool every week that summer. McCarren Park Pool, at a cost of $1 million, boasted a capacity of 6800 simultaneous swimmers and was the size of three Olympic pools combined. It was one of the largest public pools in the world. It, like its 9 counterparts, was an immediate success with the residents" – Free Willliamsburg.com

MCCARREN PARK POOL 2006 CONCERT SCHEDULE SO FAR
Sun 7/09 – Les Savy Fav, ???, Beans With Holy Fuck, Dragons of Zynth, DJs Finger On The Pulse (free)
Sun 7/16 – TBA (free)
Sun 7/23 – Silversun Pickups & TBA (free)
Sat 7/29 – Bloc Party, Secret Machines, Mew [SOLD OUT]
Sun 7/30 – Of Montreal, Enon (free)
Sun 8/06 – TBA
Fri 8/11 – Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Sonic Youth, Blood on the Wall
Sat 8/12 – Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Sonic Youth, Awesome Color
Sun 8/13 – Deerhoof, Beirut, Apollo Sunshine, The Harlem Shakes, DJ Questlove (free)
Thu 8/17 – Iron & Wine
Thu 8/24 – Neko Case, Joanna Newsom, Martha Wainwright
Sun 8/27 – The Walkmen, Dr. Dog, Elvis Perkins, Human Television, DJ Mikey Palms (free)
Sun 9/03 – Shy Child, Spank Rock, DJs The Rub (free)
9/09 – Gov’t Mule, Wolfmother & Two Gallants