When In Doubt, Make Up Something

Because the press officer hasn’t been around that long anyway and reporters will write whatever you tell them:

It was near freezing outside, but Parks Commissioner Adrian Benepe wore swim trunks and sandals yesterday to the opening of the first indoor public pool built in the city in more than 40 years.

At 110,000 square feet, the Flushing Meadows Corona Park Aquatic Center in Queens is the largest recreational center ever built in a city park.

The facility cost $66.3 million and features three Olympic-sized pools, including one diving pool.

And when they say that it’s “the first indoor public pool built in the city in more than 40 years” what they mean is the first indoor pool not counting the one that opened back in 2004.