Image courtesy of Jenny Odell

You know there’s a heat wave in New York when you find yourself desperately stalking Google Maps on satellite view searching for a glimpse of turquoise. Yes, you need a pool in your backyard and you need it bad. But until you can get a MacroSea fancy dumpster pool, the public pools of NYC will have to do. Here is a selection of Google images of publicly accessible pools that are not too far from Bushwick. I mean, it’s nothing like Jenny Odell (above) but it’s still pretty mesmerizing, if you ask me.