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.”
“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.
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.