Danny Tinneny RIP

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 were nuts, but in the best way.

As was Danny, who has passed into the aether before any real estate mogul can change the Gowamus canal to a destination for the rich.

RIP Danny Tinneny.

Long live the Gowanus.

Danny lives in DANNY'S LOT by Jocko Weyland.

Gowanus Dumpster Pool

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 that deep."

"We'll see." I had jumped off the cliffs of the Quincy Quarries and various bridges around the world as well as piers and docks.

That evening we arrived at the site.

One look at the dumpster and I bailed on my feat.

There were no children allowed after dark, I went swimming naked.

Several women joined me.

It was good to be free in a city of so many restraints.

Thanks to Danny Tinneny, whose idea created the dumpster pools.