A popular pool in the Gowanus area of Brooklyn has been slated for closure this summer. Last year the pool was estimated to have seen 40,000 visitors and is considered an important recreation facility to the surrounding low-income community. While this and many other facilities in low- income areas of the city face closure, other similar areas in high income areas have been slated for a spruce up, and in at least one case, over a million dollars in un-needed improvements to a park that was opened less than 15 years ago. The difference? The Gowanus pool serves an area with a median household income of $23,000. The neighborhood getting the million dollar park upgrade? per capita income of $88,000. This sort of prejudice is often underreported in the media.