Carmine Street Public Baths (Tony Dapolito Recreation Center)
1 Clarkson Street | also 2 7th Avenue | West Village | built 1908
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- 1908
The Carmine Street public bath house opens with showers, tubs and a gymnasium
The city commissioned Renwick, Aspinwall & Tucker in 1906 to design a bath house at the eastern end of Hudson Park, and it opened on May 6, 1908. Showers and tubs filled the first and second floors, and a gymnasium took the third. Guastavino tile arches carry every floor. It was one of several city bath houses built to give all New Yorkers a place to wash.
“On May 6, 1908 the bath house opened, one of several public bath houses constructed around the turn of the century…”
- 1922
Seventh Avenue's extension cuts off a corner of the bath house, which is then enlarged twice
When Seventh Avenue South was extended to Varick Street between 1914 and 1917, a corner of the bath house had to be demolished. By 1922 an addition by Jaros Kraus stood along the new avenue frontage, and in 1929 Mitchell Bernstein added a two-story wing with a roof pavilion for a playground room, an indoor pool and comfort stations. A WPA-funded outdoor pool followed in 1931.
- 1987
Keith Haring paints a big mural by the outdoor pool at the Carmine Street Recreation Center
In August 1987 the artist Keith Haring painted a big mural at the outdoor pool of the Carmine Street Recreation Center in the West Village, the facility that grew out of the 1908 public baths. The next month he made a temporary mural, Detroit Notes, for the Cranbrook Art Museum in Michigan.
“In August 1987, Haring painted a large mural at the Carmine Street Recreation Center's outdoor pool in the West Village.”
Source: Wikipedia
- 2003
The Carmine Street recreation center is renamed for community leader Tony Dapolito
In 2003 the facility, long known as the Carmine Street Recreation Center, was renamed to honor Tony Dapolito, a community leader and parks and playgrounds advocate. The center occupies the former Carmine Street Public Baths building, at the east end of James J. Walker Park. The park, previously Hudson Park, took Mayor Walker's name in 1946; as a child he lived across from the old St. John's cemetery.
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