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Ranked shortlist · 10 of 42 swimming pools
Best swimming pools in Queens
The 10 most notable swimming pools in Queens, in rank order. The order is curation quality — how well attested and how complete each record is — not popularity, and no place on this list paid to be on it.
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1
Saf-T-Swim of Little Neck
245-24 Horace Harding Expy
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.344, percentile 100 of 42
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2
Hommocks Pool
140 Hommocks Rd
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.335, percentile 97.56 of 42
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3
Freestyle Swim
20-07 127th St
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.292, percentile 95.12 of 42
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4
Queens College Aquatics Center
65-30 Kissena Blvd
listed by Foursquare Open Source Places and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.292, percentile 92.68 of 42
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5
Commonpoint Queens at Tanenbaum Family Pool
58-25 Little Neck Pkwy
listed by Microsoft and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.292, percentile 90.24 of 42
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6
Liberty Pool
105-31 172nd St
544 m from Rockaway Junction, rail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 1.00 · rank score 2.227, percentile 87.8 of 42
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7
Valley Stream Pool
645 m from Valley Stream, rail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website and a phone · Overture confidence 0.97 · rank score 2.195, percentile 85.37 of 42
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8
Swim Tank
120 Madison St
344 m from Mamaroneck station, rail
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.191, percentile 82.93 of 42
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9
Swim Tank
45 W Red Oak Ln
listed by Meta and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.191, percentile 80.49 of 42
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10
Goldfish Swim School - Glendale
71-03 80th Street, Spc 7-110
748 m from Ridgewood (LIRR Lower Montauk station), rail
listed by Microsoft and Overture Maps Foundation · record has a website, a phone and an address · Overture confidence 0.99 · rank score 2.178, percentile 78.05 of 42
How this list is made
Every place in this group was scored by the same model, with each term z-normalised inside the group and capped, so a famous chain cannot win by being famous everywhere. The weights, verbatim:
- attestation by independent providers
- +0.35
- record completeness (website, phone, address)
- +0.25
- Overture existence confidence
- +0.20
- Michelin designation (Wikidata, CC0)
- +0.40
- brand fame (Wikidata sitelinks)
- −0.15
- same-name chain collision
- −0.30
Curation quality, not popularity: how well attested and how complete a record is.
No licensable popularity signal; this ranks curation quality, not taste
Independent check: 5,951 places listed in Wikivoyage (CC BY-SA 4.0; validation only, never published or scored) were matched to our records by name within 250 m. Across the 5,651 that fall in groups of at least 10, the median matched place sits at percentile 73 and 24.2% are in the top decile, against 10% by chance; five families have enough anchors to report (arts, food and drink, lodging, shopping, sport), while health care (5), lifestyle services (17), travel (26) have too few and are not validated. A match needs both the guide and the catalogue to name the same place, which favours well-attested places — a term this rank itself rewards — so these are lower bounds; Michelin's 528 in-group anchors have a median percentile of 100, but that is partly circular: across the Wikivoyage matches, the 17 that also carry the designation term this rank scores sit at 99.93, against 72.55 for the 5,934 without it.
The catalogue carries no rating, review count, price or opening hours, so this file has none.
Station locations from Wikidata (CC0-1.0). Nearest station, not service: no frequency, timetable or departures.
Nobody paid for placement: no ads, no sponsored results, no ratings for sale.
Data: AllThePlaces (CC0-1.0), BrightQuery (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), DAC (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Foursquare Open Source Places (Apache-2.0), Meta (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Microsoft (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), Overture Maps Foundation (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), PinMeTo (CDLA-Permissive-2.0), RenderSEO (CDLA-Permissive-2.0).