QUESTION
What is the current availability of swimming classes in NYC parks, and where are they located?
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NYC Parks officials detail the availability of swimming classes across the city, highlighting various programs and their locations.
- Swim team programs are conducted in 8 pools, learn-to-swim programs in 7 pools, and water aerobics and adaptive aquatics in 7 pools across the city.
- The swim for life program is available in 6 parks pools and 3 Department of Education (DOE) pools.
- New recreational centers with indoor pools, Rory Wilkins and Shirley Chism Rec Center, are set to expand programming.
- The swimming programs are hosted in specific pools located in Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens, and DOE pools in Evander, Far Rockaway, and Curtis High School.
Mercedes Narcisse
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And I would like to know if you have a current data on how many swimming class going around the park right now for the lessons in in our city.
Sue Donoghue
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Thank you.
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Counsel member for the question.
0:31:11
And as we've discussed here and as we've said in our testimony, it's an incredibly important priority for the Foxtrot and we have worked both internally to provide programming, and as assistant commissioner Chase said, to provide both as much swim program as we can, partnering with DOE in order to have programming in city schools.
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And also, as I said in my testimony, opening 2 new brand new rep centers that will include indoor pools, which will be an incredible asset we know both in Rory Wilkins and in the Shirley Chism Rec Center, which we're excited about, which will enable us to expand our programming that we can do across the city.
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In terms of the exact number of swim classes that we hold today, Emily, do you want to take that?
Emily Chase
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Thank you so much for the question.
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To give you an idea, currently, we have a swim team happening, which forgive me, I mention that program before swim team is a great competitive program for kids who are upping their skills and looking to be part of a team environment.
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Swim team is happening at 8 pools across the City.
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Learn to swim.
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Programming is happening at 7 pools, and and I'm speaking about indoor pools here.
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Water aerobics and ballet and adaptive aquatics.
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Are is happening at 7 pools across the city, and swim for life programming is happening at 9 pools.
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So 6 parks pools and the 3 DOE pools that I mentioned.
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So that gives you a sense of some of our scale and scope.
Mercedes Narcisse
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Are they where they located?
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Those pools that we're talking about.
Emily Chase
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Our our all and all of our indoor recreation center pools, which I can rattle off here.
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In Brooklyn, we have Metropolitan Pool and Saint Johns in Manhattan.
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We have Acer Levy, Chelsea, constant speaker Mottley and Gertrude Edderley in Queens.
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We have Flushing Meadows Corona Park and Roy Wilkins Pool.
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And as I had mentioned before, we work in the DOE pools, Evander, Far Rockaway, and Curtis High School.
Mercedes Narcisse
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Alright.