On July 31, 1936, the McCarren Park Pool had its moment in the sun. It was one of the 11 New York City pools opened that summer by Mayor Fiorello La Guardia and Parks Commissioner Robert Moses, who was in charge of getting them built. The two biggest pools were Astoria and McCarren, but the pride of Williamsburg boasted the largest bathhouse in the system. McCarren was built to accommodate 6,800 guests at a time with a 55,400-sq. ft. basin swathed in Art Deco glory.
Campo: Every year, New York districts would submit a community needs document to the Department of City Planning, and every year, at the top of the list was the reconstruction of the McCarren Park pool. Community leaders wanted to reclaim it as a pool, but also because it had become a nuisance, in the eyes of some.
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Craig Finn (The Hold Steady): I live in the neighborhood and was certainly always aware of the physical pool structure. Word started going around they might start doing shows inside. It seemed improbable, but that if it happened, man what a cool gig. We would have welcomed the chance to play there from the get-go.
Sarah Hooper (JellyNYC Founder): The friendship between the three of us grew through our collective love of music, so we decided to throw a party at Southpaw featuring new bands. I would always dorkily make Jell-O shots, which is kind of where Jelly came from.
Kane: We talked to Lafrance, who acted as our go-between for the McCarren permits. We paid way more than had we just gone to the Parks Department ourselves. The money was supposed to go to refurbishing the pool.
Hooper: Waves of post-World Cup hordes came walking through the park, 3-4,000 people poured into the pool. And they were already drunk, so nobody needed to get warmed up. They got right into it, dodgeball, Slip 'N Slide, crowd-surfing, all of it. And then Les Savy Fav blew them away.
Kane: It was an amazing moment. All these people waving their country flags, taking photos of the venue, just so excited to be there. In an instant, I went from utter panic about the biggest mistake of my life to euphoria. I was overcome.
Kane: I was always the first one there, every Sunday morning at 6:30 a.m. The first thing that had to be taken care of was cleaning the pool. There was always broken glass everywhere, and every week, the broom brigade would show up to help. Unpaid volunteers who loved being a part of it. Who does that?
Darby Moeller (JellyNYC volunteer): In June 2006, I graduated from Seattle University and bought a one-way ticket to New York City, moved to Bushwick all bright-eyed and bushy-tailed with the idea that somehow, I was going to work in the music industry. A close friend said there was a volunteer gig at a newly reclaimed music venue in Williamsburg. My first job was to take donations out front, but it was too hot. I moved to the back of the venue and was given the task of minding the VIP list, cross-referencing who got in, which I thoroughly enjoyed. A couple months later, I got a job at Columbia Records, but I kept volunteering to run the list for the next four summers.
Kane: The temperature at the Dead Meadow show hit the 90s, even hotter in the concrete sauna. It was perfect for sludge rock, but after that we were required to have an ambulance on site. We talked the NYFD into bringing a fire truck to the pool and hosing everyone down.
Kane: The flagship sponsor the first year was Brooklyn Brewery, they signed on before the first concert. They put down a nice amount of cash up front, but it was a sweet deal for them because they kept all the beer sales. We were green. Brooklyn Brewery made their money back and then some.
Toto Miranda (Octopus Project featuring Peelander-Z): Even down in Texas, we were definitely aware of the Pool Party series. I remember seeing some of the bills from 2006 and wishing I was there.
Goldstein: I saw an ad on Brooklyn Vegan that Jelly needed volunteers to pick up glass. A couple of weeks in I was manning the dodgeball game, which fit the pool organically and took off to become its own little universe. It was all the best-looking hipster kickball dudes. Those regular guys, and a few girls, who were really into the dodgeball game had fans watching them every week. After the first year, I passed that job onto Shirtless Tom and started doing more with set-up and breakdown, ops manager, and eventually, office manager.
Jill Menze (former writer/reviewer Billboard): Jelly always sprinkled elements of humor into the parties. By the stage, they put up those big goofy wavy balloon people like you see at car washes. So dumb. So funny.
By the second summer, Jelly hit their groove. The Pool Parties became a Sunday afternoon staple. The nine free JellyNYC shows brought bigger crowds, as did the handful of paid shows put on by concert behemoth Live Nation.
DeFalco: We butted heads over this, but every year, I wanted to have one date to reach out beyond the hipsters, who were going to come anyway. The Ponderosa Stomp show was one of those shows.
Campo: Oh man, Ted Leo and The Thermals, what a show. The epitome of summer in the city. Hanging out in a vacant lot, drinking beer, sweating, and listening to loud guitar-based rock. Jelly kicked so much ass with their musical selections.
Chase: The Ponderosa Stomp seemed dubious when heading in, being directed at a much older audience than the usual Pool Parties. Instead, it turned out to be one of the most memorable Pool Parties, for being so different and yet so fun. Roy Head joked about remembering where he put his Viagra, but reassured everyone that the comment was only directed at the one much older lady up front.
Lambert: We passed out thousands of balloons, maybe a thousand were blown up and launched? It was awesome. We also thought, who would be animated enough to act as our hype man? The answer, Peelander-Z.
Miranda: Peelander-Z are good friends of ours who were still based in New York back then. They are a ridiculous party in and of themselves. We asked them to show up in costume, they did.
Yampolsky: I was against the concerts because they were sponsored by some large corporation and they wanted to kill it from ever being a pool again. It became about these fashionable celebrities showing up. The concerts were for a different part of the neighborhood, I never attended any. I heard the Bush twins were spotted there.
Kane: I worked closely with Live Nation and Bowery Presents and they helped develop a lot of the pool infrastructure, including a real stage. Honestly, I never had a problem with the paid shows.
At the M.I.A. show, one of the security guards thought our bass player was Wes Anderson. He talked to him for five minutes, telling him how much he admired his films. We got a good laugh out of it, but it was a big difference between the Beans and the M.I.A. show, which was a happening. It seemed possible, even perhaps likely, that Wes Anderson would be there.
In November 2007, Mayor Michael Bloomberg announced a $50-million renovation to McCarren Pool, meaning the following summer would be its end as a concert venue. Once again, JellyNYC put on nine gratis gigs, including their most legendary wheels-are-coming-off event. But storm clouds continued to form, literally and metaphorically.
Spector: The thing that sticks out in my mind about that show was just how hot a day it was. Too hot to be on stage. Every so often, there was a tiny bit of a breeze, but not enough. The cool thing was the audience, a bunch of families, some Brooklyn folk, mixed with a bunch of hipsters. What I remember most is the crowd loved when I sang Johnny Thunders "You Can't Put Your Arm Around a Memory." Now that was the biggest pool I've ever seen in my life.
Hooper: The bands would work with us, but a lot of the bookings, like the Breeders, were honestly based on straight-up begging. We worked all our relationships, friends of friends of friends, and got some mega-mega plays from bands who took a lot less.
Honus Honus: I heard Vincent Gallo and Lou Reed were at our show together on a man date. I can only imagine what it was like for every young boy and girl having to walk past that pair on the sidewalk, the sexual prowess of that older gentlemen bro-hang.
Argue: The pool had a communal vibe. We were all repurposing this city property that lay fallow for so many years together. It was always good-natured, not aggressive. Sure, a lot of people got their drink on, but if someone fell, the crowd would pick them right back up.
Casale: After the Booji Boy debacle, we got out of there as quick as we could to avoid getting caught up in traffic. I told our driver to go straight to Blue Ribbon in SoHo and drowned my sorrows in a nice steak tartar and a pinot noir.
The police showed up and I told them we think the smell is coming from a small concrete pool house that flanked the stage. Myself, a police officer, and a security guard moved a big metal plate that looked like it was permanent, but up close, it could be slid off to the side to sneak in through the hole. We walked into a dark, nasty place with two feet of garbage piled up, like the trash compactor in Star Wars. It was disgusting. It was a gag reflex stink in there.
Hooper: There were a lot more caveats, but Jelly was willing to jump through hoops to make it happen. It was tough because we had to use new bar people, PAs, and security guards, one of whom grabbed a kid by the arm and threw him to the ground for crowd-surfing. What the fuck are you doing?
Kane: We always missed the pool shows, but the Waterfront had its crazy-ass moments too. The rider for Girl Talk said he was allowed to bring 25 people on stage, a few songs into the set, the stage was packed front-to-back. Fifty people or more. The stage started to collapse, the cinder blocks were crumbling and buckling. We had to stop the show. 152ee80cbc
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