The park around the pool is 35 acres and is the site of endless games of kickball, soccer, baseball, bocce, handball, basketball, football, and tennis and more McCarren Park Pool is a year-round centre of community life.

The schemes, sometimes known as NHS top-up plans, are a form of low cost insurance policy to help meet the cost of a range of non-urgent healthcare procedures and appointments - not just at the dentist but also at the optician and for osteopathy, physiotherapy, chiropody and a visit to a chiropractor.

A fascinating series of black and white photos has captured the excitement and enthusiasm of New Yorkers welcoming the arrival of 11 pools around the city during the 1930s as they splash around, swim competitively and people watch at these new social hubs.

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The New Deal is the name retrospectively given to the domestic policies brought in by then-President Franklin Roosevelt between 1933 and 1938, which were brought in to revive the US economy after the Wall Street Crash in 1929.

You must pay for any treatment upfront but can then claim back the cost - typically 50 per cent, 75 per cent or sometimes up to 100 per cent - depending on the treatment and level of cover you have, up to your maximum annual limit.

Our friendly neighbor to the North, aka Canada, has announced its intention to ban the sale of new internal-combustion-powered passenger cars and light trucks by 2035, with the goal of reaching net-zero emissions by 2050, according to a Reuters report Tuesday.

Roosevelt: FDR set up the Works Progress Administration to put the unemployed back to work. Building new roads was one of the WPA's main outlets, along with constructing public buildings, airports and parks.

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The plan, which the Trudeau administration proposed, would see Canada joining the state of California and countries like the United Kingdom (though the UK's plan is even more ambitious, giving itself five fewer years to meet its goal) in shifting toward electric vehicles.

But the scale of what was unveiled by the Prime Minister at a college in Dudley this morning appears to be on a far lower order of magnitude to that put in place by the Democrat in the early 1930s to combat the horrors of the Great Depression.

"We are committed to aligning Canada's zero-emission vehicles sales targets with those of the most ambitious North American jurisdictions," Canadian Environment Minister Jonathan Wilkinson said as part of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's announcement.

A swimming contest is in full swing on August 20, 1936 at the Astoria Park Pool - the largest of the 11 WPA pools opened only on July 2 of the same year during the great heatwave. Hell Gate Bridge  - a 1,017-foot steel through arch railroad bridge connecting Astoria in Queens and Randalls and Wards Islands in Manhattan - can be seen in the background

Some historians have suggested it was the massive military spending of the Second World War, after the US belatedly entered in 1941, that finally put the Great Depression to bed and laid the foundations for the late 20th Century superpower.

They carry public health messages, aiming to halt the spread of infectious diseases like syphilis and tuberculosis, and encouraging people to eat a good diet, exercise and seek advice on parenting techniques.

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Jan Grenci, a reference specialist for posters at the Library of Congress, said: 'The Library of Congress has more than 900 posters made by the WPA, which is the largest surviving collection of these beautiful, original prints, most of which are silkscreens.

There was a conscious nod to the originator of the New deal as he added: 'I am conscious as I say all this that it sounds like a prodigious amount of government intervention. It sounds like a New Deal.

It is the last word in engineering, hygiene, and construction that could be put into a pool.' The Thomas Jefferson Park Pool opened on June 27, 1936 and 10,000 people attended the ceremony where Mayor Firorello La Guardia said: 'Here is something you can be proud of.

Jan Grenci, a reference specialist for posters at the Library of Congress, said the posters, created for a government agency called the Work Projects Administration (WPA) still have 'many admirers' as they are 'truly American in style.