![The pool at the St. Tropez, a condo at 340 East 64th Street. Residents pay $200 a season for access.](https://static01.nyt.com/images/2011/08/07/realestate/07COVERPOO1_SPAN/cover-articleLarge.jpg?quality=75&auto=webp&disable=upscale)
LIKE iced tea, perhaps, or casual Fridays, outdoor pools are in many minds forever linked with summer. After all, the sensation of sun on wet skin after a few dips in the deep end just about sums up the season.
But that pleasure is denied to most apartment-dwellers in New York City. If their building has a pool at all, it is probably of the enclosed kind.
Of the approximately 150 pools in residential buildings in Manhattan, only about 15 are outside, according to the city’s Department of Health and Mental Hygiene; some of those 15 are in private town houses.