>Graydon Pool : Membership was way up this summer. The pool sold 3,691 season badges in 2010, compared with 2,426 in 2009.
Ridgewood’s Graydon Pool like ‘being at the beach’
Sunday, September 5, 2010
Last updated: Sunday September 5, 2010, 10:51 AM
BY MIKE KERWICK
The Record
STAFF WRITER
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RIDGEWOOD — His son is playing in the water. His daughter is playing in the sand. And Chris Burns is leaning back on his arms, sitting on Graydon Pool’s sand-covered bottom, enjoying one more day before the gates close for the summer.
Burns and his wife, Debra, live in Ridgewood. The commute is easy. The kids love it. But if something changed.…
“If this went concrete,” Chris said Saturday, “I think we’d probably move.”
This village-run summer hot spot has endured its share of controversy over the past two years. It landed on Preservation New Jersey’s list of Top 10 endangered historic sites this summer.
In 2009, fearful that the pool could lead to health risks, the Ridgewood Pool Project urged the Village Council to go concrete. The Preserve Graydon Coalition lobbied to keep Graydon just the way it is.
“People started to understand we had a treasure that had to be taken care of and preserved,” Marcia Ringel, co-chairwoman of the Preserve Graydon Coalition, said Friday. “The group that was fighting against us has been very quiet. Their website is down, which in the 21st century is the equivalent of standing over someone with the sword in their chest.”
“Unfortunately Graydon was turned into a divisive issue, one that became personal and turned neighbor against neighbor,” said Councilman Paul Aronsohn, a former proponent of the concrete proposal. “This is really a shame, because most people involved in the issue love this community and just want to do the right thing — regardless of their position on the matter.”
In July, Mayor Keith Killion told The Record he was “waiting to see the results of the membership” before making any decisions. Aronsohn said from the council’s perspective, “the Graydon issue has been put on hold.”
Membership was way up this summer. The pool sold 3,691 season badges in 2010, compared with 2,426 in 2009. Steve Diamond, the pool’s waterfront manager, said he thinks people stopped in and realized “it was a nice complete package for a good price.” The weather didn’t hurt: 2010 brought one sweltering hot day after another.
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