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Weird News: Blue Water in the East River?

Some stories are downright strange. Here's our wrap-up from around Brooklyn and Queens.

As a local news organization, Patch covers stories of all kinds, from heartbreaking tragedies to inspiring tales of community brotherhood. But some stories are just plain weird. Here are some of the stranger headlines from the past seven days, compiled from Patch Staff reports.

An Oasis in the East River?

Swimming in the East River never looked so … possible

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New York Daily News story this week highlighted a new proposal for a floating pool in Brooklyn Bridge Park.

The pool's filtration system, proposed in an ongoing Kickstarter campaign, would float in East River water.

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If it works, the project could progress to the next stage, creating an actual $15 million pool using tiles named by Kickstarter backers.

The campaign, according to its creators, started with a question few have been brave enough to postulate: "instead of trying to clean the entire river, what if you started by just cleaning a small piece of it?"

The goal is to raise $250,000, and the water in +Pool, as the project is called, would be cleaned by a "layered filtration" system that can clean half a million gallons of river water per day, the project managers claim.

Just how that filtration system works — or if it will work — is still a subject for debate.

Technical for Kidd

Let's hope this isn't a preview of coming attractions.

No matter what happens during the coaching career of Jason Kidd, one of his first acts as the new leader of the Brooklyn Nets will have been to get T'd up in a summer league game.

According to ESPN, Kidd was coaching a mix of draft picks and development league players for the first time over the holiday weekend, and was called for a technical foul after challenging an official's call.

Planters, or Nuts?

On E. 14th St. between Avenue H and I, just outside Ditmas Park's borders, gardeners have gotten creative with their planters, using things such as tires and laundry baskets to hold soil and shrubberies.

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