Aug 24, 2020 · Aqua-Zanies Imagine being a kid in Astoria, Queens, in the early 1940s, living next to a swimming pool that had helped produce the world’s greatest swimmers! A group of local swimming enthusiasts looked at Astoria Pool’s extended diving platform and saw a opportunity to entertain, forming an athletic-comedy group called the Aqua-Zanies.

Sept. 14, 2016 By Hannah Wulkan The defunct diving pool in Astoria Park is back in the spotlight again. In 2014 the Parks department announced that it would fill in the diving pool and create a performance space, but a local Astoria resident has started a petition to restore the diving pool to its former glory. Kathleen Springer, raised in Astoria right …

The diving platform, built in 1936 by Robert Moses, will form the centerpiece of a new music and arts performance center to be constructed on the site of the old diving pool in Astoria Park, which has been in disuse for several decades. Vote Now!

Dec 21, 2016 · Astoria Park diving pool, with its landmark art deco concrete diving platforms, was the site of Olympic diving trials in 1936, 1952 and 1964, and was safely used by the public until it was closed in 1980, due to maintenance issues.

Description Astoria Park pool opened on July 2, 1936. It was the largest of the eleven WPA pools built throughout the city that year. It was the site of the Olympic swimming and diving trials for the 1936 Olympics, just as Randall’s Island Stadium was for track and field. “Parks Commissioner Robert Moses, an avid swimmer himself, recognized …

Sep 20, 2016 · An update on what's going on in the space that is/was the Astoria Park Diving Pool.

In 1936 and 1964, Astoria Pool hosted the Olympic Trials for the U.S. Swim and Diving Teams. In 2006, Astoria Pool was designated an official New York City landmark and remains an invaluable community resource. Who is this pool named for?

Nov 22, 2022 · How Deep Is The Astoria Pool? The main pool, which measures 330 by 165 feet (100 by 50 meters), is rectangular and has a depth of 4 feet (1.2 meters) and a surface area of 54,450 square feet (5,059 meters). Astoria Park Diving Pool Death

Aug 31, 2016 · Hundreds of Astoria residents are petitioning to save and restore the historic, Art Deco style diving pool in Astoria Park, for the purpose of diving as it was was used for decades by generations of Astoria residents and other New Yorkers. It has a historic legacy as it was used during the 1936, 1952 and 1964 Summer Olympic trials which led to the synchronized platform diving athletes and ...

The Olympic High Dive is part of Astoria Pool, one of ten New York City public pools that opened in the summer of 1936, built with labor and funding from the Works Progress Administration. Located in the sixty-acre Astoria Park in Queens, its setting commands spectacular views of the Manhattan skyline and the Hell’s Gate and Triboro Bridges.