An infant flushed this perfect pool day down t♔he toilet at one Gowanus swimming 🌜spot.
“Somebody didn’t put a Pampers on their kid,” a staffer at the Douglass and DeGraw Pool told The Post about the Friday evening accident.
Patrons who showed up Saturday morning hoping t🍃o beat𝔉 the heat with a refreshing dip were livid to learn about the unsanitary conditions.
“What the f***? On the hottest day? They closed the pool?” fumed Suegeil Mercado, 43, who brought her 6-year-old daughter to the Gowanus pool. “And the mayor said he was going to open the pools early for the heat. We got up for this too!”
Around 11 a.m., a line began to form outside the gℱates. Workers were on hand to inform people of the closure.
“Red Hook it is!” one disappointed pool-goer exclaimed upon learning of the shut-down.
Pool staffers💎 attempted😼 to placate another disappointed kid with snacks.
“He’s very upset,” said Zina Franklin, 55, of her 11-year-old grandson, Jeremiah.
“We’re gonna suffer out here,” she said, noting that temperatures will be too high for a beach day. “The sand is going to be too hot. They said on the news you’re going to get blisters [on your feet].”
The pool is expected to reopen S😼unday at 11 a.m., accordiꦏng to
Parks has extended hours at all city Olympic- and intermediat🍨e-sized pools t🌄o 8 p.m. Saturday and Sunday.
Temperatures are expected to top 100 degrees on both days, with a heat index as high as 111.