Scary, transparent Sky Pool gets ‘a big NO’ from detractors
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Here’s hoping this London bridge doesn’t fall down.
The United Kingdom unveiled the world’s first-ever floating swimming pool, Sky Pool, last month. Now it’s going viral as critics expressed trepidation about combining their fears of germs, drowning — and heights. Located at London’s luxurious Embassy Gardens apartments, this high-altitude waterway is the world’s largest load-bearing acrylic structure at a whopping 82 feet long. And more than half of it is suspended in midair — a staggering 115 feet above the ground. Thrill-seekers are invited to swim between two 10-story skyscrapers, à la an aquatic Habitrail.
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The killing of Iran’s tyrannical Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei on Saturday in an unprecedented joint military attack by the US and Israel called Operation Epic Fury set off widespread celebrations from Iranians around the world — as President Trump said it would give them their “greatest chance” to “take back the country.” Meanwhile, in Iran, a lack of internet has made it impossible for Iranians to easily communicate daily conditions. Over a period of three days, with limited VPN connection, an eyewitness currently in Tehran — who, for her safety, is concealing her identity — shared her account of life under a country in the midst of battle with The Post’s Natasha Pearlman.
After exactly 120 years, the curtain has fallen on the Theater District institution Barbetta, with the iconic Italian restaurant having served its final course Friday night.