Tag Archives: Danny Tinneny

Danny Tinneny RIP

August 6, 2015 – 3:55 pm

Danny Tinneny owned a lot along the Gowanus Canal, which the 64 year-old gave to the extreme real estate developer Macro Sea rent-free for their Dumpster Pools and Glassphemy projects. “To tell you the truth, when they first came here, I thought they were nuts,” he said of Jocko Weyland and his partners. And they […]

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Gowanus Dumpster Pool

August 5, 2015 – 4:15 pm

In the summer of 2009 Macro Sea filled two dumpsters with water and opened the Gowanus Canal swimming hole. Jocko Weyland, one the the minds behind the pools, invited me to the opening and I planned on leaping off a nearby roof into the water. Jocko didn’t think this was a good idea. “It’s not […]

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