Nadine Gallo: Remembering swimming pools in New York Published: 5/25/2021 12:53:43 PM As a swimmer from Washington Heights, New York City, I regularly swam at Highbridge pool near the East River. That pool was crowded with kids of every color. Nobody segregated the swimmers. (“Refilling the ‘pool’ of public good,” by columnist Andrea Ayvazian, May 15) For 10 cents you could spend the day in the pool with hundreds of shades of brown and tan splashing and leaping in the water. That was 1945 and on. There was no segregation in New York City in any park or playground. That doesn’t mean we didn’t have some racism and indeed, gang fights occasionally.