--- title: "Asphalt Green, Upper East Side | Have Goggles, Will Travel" description: "Upper East Side New York Community Pool. 25y indoor pool. Located in New York, New York, USA. Rating: 60/100." canonical_url: "https://havegoggleswilltravel.com/pool/asphalt-green-upper-east-side" meta: "og:description": "Upper East Side New York Community Pool. 25y indoor pool. Located in New York, New York, USA. Rating: 60/100." "og:title": "Asphalt Green, Upper East Side" --- ![Asphalt Green, Upper East Side pool photo](https://havegoggleswilltravel.com/cdn-cgi/image/w=1280,h=544,f=webp,q=30,fit=cover/pool/2/asphalt-green-upper-east-side-square.jpg) 2 # Asphalt Green, Upper East Side New York, USA Friday, 12 May 2017 ![Asphalt Green, Upper East Side pool photo](https://havegoggleswilltravel.com/cdn-cgi/image/w=1856,h=788,f=webp,q=75,fit=cover/pool/2/asphalt-green-upper-east-side-square.jpg) ## Upper East Side New York Community Pool ## Interesting lane chat, with Upper East Siders. Boy-o-boy swimming in New York is expensive, after the eye-watering yet worth-it $50 for my Chelsea Piers opening swim, I was hoping for a cheap pool #2! I had two meetings booked in around the Upper East Side so Asphalt Green starting from 12 pm so managed to squeeze in a quick 3,000-yard swim. The pool was busy, great chatting US politics with my lane companions, trump and general conservative bashing being the main topics of conversations. I’d never heard a ’70s something lady use the c-word in casual conversation before! $35 for a guest day pass, $1 for a towel and $8 for a padlock (I now own a padlock worthy of a Fort Knox vault door!). I planned to arrive bright and early for the 8:30 am session, but I spent most of the night awake with full-on man-flu! My Manchester United Uber driver on hearing the British accent launched into a full 25-minute premier league season analysis and his dislike of Chelsea – His excitement to hear I was a West Brom fan and we were playing Chelsea today was the catalyst for a full-blown Chelsea bashing. The pool is a full 50-meter length with a diving pit and floating boom. During my visit, the pool was split into two 25-yard pools with school swim on one side and lap swim on the deeper diving pit side. The water temperature was perfect, cold and refreshing – and soothing for my man-flu fever! The swim was made more complicated mid-set by the in-pool cleaning crew ‘scraping’ black balls of who knows what from the bottom of the 3.6-yard-deep end! Meet a colleague for dinner, only for them to offer me their Asphalt Green membership pass! Could have saved $35! - ![Asphalt Green, Upper East Side gallery image](https://havegoggleswilltravel.com/cdn-cgi/image/w=640,h=480,f=webp,q=75,fit=cover/pool/2/asphalt-green-upper-east-side-square.jpg) ### Pool Review (60 / 100) Great pool for a proper swim training session, this is a popular, high-volume use pool. Facilities were clean(ish); however, there were black mounds of ... something on the floor of the diving pit. No idea what they were but the staff were trying to scrape them off using a (very) long pole! [Follow me on Instagram →](https://www.instagram.com/havegoggleswilltravel/) ### Swim Stats - 3000y swim distance - 1:22 pace / 100y - Garmin Swim Watch ### Pool Details - Indoor pool - Pool length 25y - 10 lanes [Visit pool website ↗](https://www.asphaltgreen.org/location/upper-east-side/) Asphalt Green, Upper East Side [555 East 90th Street New York, NY, USA](https://havegoggleswilltravel.com/map?pool=2) [←Chelsea Piers](https://havegoggleswilltravel.com/pool/chelsea-piers) [Roosevelt Island, Sportspark Swim C ...→](https://havegoggleswilltravel.com/pool/roosevelt-island-sportspark-swim-center) ## Sitemap See the full [sitemap](/sitemap.md) for all pages.