The long-promised “+ POOL” — a futuristic floating swimming pool designed to buoy bathers in the East River — will open off Pier 35 along the Lower East Side.

As recently as the 1940s, New Yorkers swam in floating pools in the Hudson and East rivers. A safer alternative to swimming directly in the river, the municipal bathsmunicipal baths ...

A plan for a floating, self-filtering pool in the East River may soon become a reality, New York officials said on Friday. With a $16 million investment from the city and state, the floating pool ...