New York's Floating Pool Lady Speaks

When Ann L. Buttenwieser was researching her dissertation, she stumbled on records of the nineteenth century public baths built into the East River. She couldn't let the idea go.

Today’s post is a follow-up interview to an excerpt from Ann L. Buttenwieser’s new book, The Floating Pool Lady: A Quest to Bring a Public Pool to New York City’s Waterfront (Cornell, 2021). You can read the excerpt in Public Seminar here. If you are as intrigued with this topic as I am, you can also:

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