After learning to swim in her 40s, one school leader is helping students gain life-saving skills.

City health officials issued water quality advisories for 17 NYC-area beaches, warning swimmers to avoid the water.

A high school in Bushwick is coaxing teenagers into a long-neglected pool, turning nonswimmers into competitors — and possibly a summer job in a lifeguard chair. By Corey Kilgannon The Bushwick Tigers ...

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Make a splash without paying a penny in one of Brooklyn’s 15 free outdoor public swimming pools. Ranging in size from a handful of mini-pools to the gargantuan facilities in Red Hook and at ...

BED-STUY, Brooklyn (PIX11) – A school of goldfish has made its home on a Brooklyn sidewalk. The goldfish were seen swimming in a puddle fed by a leaking fire hydrant on the corner of Tompkins Avenue ...

Women-only swimming hours will be allowed to continue at a public pool in a heavily Orthodox neighborhood of Brooklyn. The New York City Parks Department decision on the indoor pool at the ...