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Monday, July 3, 2017, 4:10 AM <\/p>\n
It was all so easy. Just some plywood, two-by-fours and screws to construct simple privacy walls to give male swimmers at Hamilton Fish Pool on the Lower East Side a place to change their clothes not in full public view. <\/p>\n
Congratulations to the Parks Department for rectifying a sexist situation after we complained. <\/p>\n
Thus all 36 of the citys main outdoor pools, which opened for the summer on Thursday, have full changing areas. While female swimmers have always had a real Ham Fish locker room (even equipped with a bench), long ago the boys\/mens lockers were converted to a computer room. The guys were exiled to outdoor lockers fully exposed. <\/p>\n
The choices for modest males were 1) use an out-of-the-way toilet stall or 2) arrive in your bathing suit and stay in your bathing suit or 3) try the old towel-around-waist-while-wiggling-your-suit-on-and-off technique. <\/p>\n
The fix the workmen installed at Ham Fish last week is the same already in place at the Sunset Park, Highbridge and McCarren pools: A few wooden walls attached together. No floors or ceilings or electric or plumbing. Just privacy. <\/p>\n
Now the parkies should deliver the same idea of basic changing areas to the citys seven beaches. The 14 miles of sand and shore are Orchard Beach, Coney Island\/Brighton Beach, Manhattan Beach, Rockaway, South Beach\/Midland Beach, Wolfes Pond and Cedar Grove. <\/p>\n
Even though master builder Robert Moses created them with changing areas, just as he made 11 giant pools like Ham Fish, no city beach now provides a place other than toilet stalls to change from street clothes to bathing suit and back again. <\/p>\n
Moses also built Long Island beaches, run by the state. There are seven, covering 14 miles: Jones, Robert Moses, Sunken Meadow, Wildwood, Heckscher, Orient and Hither Hills. Same number, same mileage, but all have changing areas four each at Jones and Robert Moses. <\/p>\n
The same at more than 80 state-run beaches upstate. All have free to use changing areas apart from the toilets. How can the city do any less? <\/p>\n
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