Beach Season in NYC is Just Beginning. For New Lifeguards, It Began Months Ago.

THE CITY—The Parks Department now has training centers in high schools across the city, and is hoping to change the culture of the beach watchers.

Summer unofficially kicks off Memorial Day weekend with the opening of New York City’s public beaches, with hundreds of lifeguards deployed to 14 miles of shoreline.

For new lifeguards, the work to don the orange uniforms began months ago on pool decks across the city. And the process for working at beaches (and at public outdoor pools when those open at the end of June) has also changed since the lifeguards and lifeguard supervisors got their first new contract in four decades last year, just before the start of beach season.

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