NEW YORK (WCBS 880) -- The city is floating the idea of setting up a self-filtering swimming pool in the East River to restore what it calls a lapsed tradition of river-swimming that dates back to the late 1800s.
The non-profit + Pool has been pushing this idea for years: putting a pool in the middle of the East River near the Brooklyn Bridge with a short walkway connecting it to Manhattan.
The group has developed renderings of a pool shaped like a big plus sign with room for swimming laps, wading and water polo matches.
They say they've worked with environmentalists, marine engineers and others to put together a triple filtration system to keep out bacteria and contaminants. The designer says it would be like dropping a giant strainer in the river.