Astoria Pool Landmarked

The ultra-gigantic WPA-era Astoria Pool has been landmarked:

The city Landmarks Preservation Commission voted unanimously Tuesday to landmark a 70-year-old public swimming pool in Astoria that is the largest in the city and a century-old firehouse in the Hunters Point section of Long Island City, the Landmarks commissioner said.

The 54,450-square-foot Astoria Park Pool and Play Center, constructed during the Great Depression in 1936 under the administration of Mayor Fiorello LaGuardia, was designated a landmark by the commission Tuesday because it is the city’s largest public pool, Landmarks Commissioner Robert Tierney said. The pool, which can hold 6,200 people, was considered worthy of landmarking for its westward vistas that are framed by the Hell Gate and Triborough Bridges and the play center was considered notable for its saucer-like roofs on the upper portion of its filter house, Tierney said.

See also: Astoria Park.