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NYC mom beats heat by giving neighborhood kids sidewalk pools: ‘Inner city creativity’

By
Deirdre Bardolf
Published July 20, 2024, 1:03 p.m. ET

One Brooklyn mom is making sure summer goes swimmingly for her son and other neighborhood kids.

In what’s become a summer tradition that started during the pandemic, Jasmina “Jazz” Jeter has set up a small swimming pool on the sidewalk across from her apartment in Bed-Stuy.

This year, she added a second, shallower one for the littlest kids.

“All the parents on the block are appreciative, because now their kids have something to do,” Jeter told The Post. “Some of the kids have never even been to the beach.”

Three-year-old girl named Zola playing in a pool on a street, seen floating on big dinosaur float smiling with goggles on her head
Three-year-old Zola is one of the many kids on the block who come to enjoy Jazz’s pools.

“There’s no clean pools around here,” complained neighbor Rachel Vargas, who brings her kids to Jeter’s pools on Macon Street when they are open.

The block is at least a 25-minute walk from the nearest public pool.

A video of Jeter’s summer setup drew 600,000 views on TikTok. “Only in New York,” the post from the page Stories of a Colorful World was captioned.

“Everybody’s always taking pictures of the pool, so I’m not surprised that it ended up on the internet,” Jeter said.

Many commenters expressed concerns about how the pools were maintained, and how they were allowed by the city.

“I drain them, I clean them, I put chlorine in them, I test the water with the testing strips,” Jeter said.

Neighborhood children splashing in two makeshift sidewalk pools set up by a local mom on Macon Street in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn. Giant dino float seen in center of one pool.
Jasmina “Jazz” Jeter lives in a part of Bed-Stuy that isn’t close to any public pools has set up two of her own on the sidewalk along Macon Street. Helayne Seidman
Neighborhood kids playing outside sidewalk pools on Macon Street, Brooklyn, one boy grinning sitting on edge, dog and kids in background
Families on Macon Street in Brooklyn enjoy Jasmina Jeter’s sidewalk pools instead of having to walk 25 minutes to the nearest public pool. Helayne Seidman
Neighborhood kids splashing around closed sidewalk pool on a hot day in Bed-Stuy, Brooklyn, New York, with a large inflatable dinosaur in the foreground of the image
Jeter said she opens the pools on the hottest days of summers and drains and cleans them in the meantime. Helayne Seidman

She hooks an adapter up to a hydrant to fill the tanks. “I make things happen,” she said.

The only issue she ever had was when the Fire Department told her to move them farther away from the hydrant.

Commenters praised the “inner city creativity” and shared the nostalgia of blistering Big Apple summers.

“Gotta do what you gotta do,” one said.