About Oratamin Community Pool
Originally established in 1949, the Oratamin Community Pool has always taken pride in being a small, community-first recreation center. The modest pool (with diving board!) is set in natural surroundings with a tennis court, playing field, pavilion, barbecues, picnic tables, and changing/shower facilities. Our community pool gathers a diverse group of people who uphold a common set of values centered on inclusivity and equity.
Our values
Our community is an inclusive place for all members and guests. This extends to spontaneous activities on the grounds from games to cookouts. We welcome all who affirm our collective set of values, co-created by the full membership in 2021, and ratified annually at the beginning of each season. Our values are:
Community
investment
Shared
Responsibility
individual
safety
Shared
Property
Membership
Located in Blauvelt, NY, our member-funded community pool serves the Nyacks, Orangetown and surrounding neighborhoods. We are set in 5 acres of natural surroundings. We offer affordable membership options, as well as swim lessons and summer camps to members and non-members.
Swim Lessons
In partnership with Swim Like a Fish Instructional Aquatics, swim lessons are available to members and non-members and offered onsite during our summer season. Click below to learn more or contact the team to register.
e. swimlikeafishNY@gmail.com
p. 845-570-1289
SUMMER ARTS EXPLORERS CAMP
We have partnered with our friends at Creative Arts Workshop to offer a weekly summer program at Oratamin Community Pool for children to explore art and creativity in a warm environment that fosters mutual respect, care, and curiosity. Discount is available to all Oratamin members. Register below or contact Creative Arts Workshop to learn more.
History
Oratamin derives its name from Chief Oratamin, sachem of the Hackensacks. In 1645, he spoke for his people at the Grand Peace Council of European colonialists and Native Americans at Fort Amsterdam. Robert Leber, who made the five-acre field and woodland tract available to the local community, called all his properties in this area the Oratamin Club.
Land Acknowledgement
We acknowledge that Oratamin Community Pool stands upon the homelands of the Munsee Lenape, Indigenous peoples who have an enduring connection to this place despite being forcibly displaced by European colonization. Munsee Lenape peoples continue today as the Stockbridge-Munsee Community in Wisconsin, the Delaware Tribe and the Delaware Nation in Oklahoma, and the Munsee Delaware Nation in Ontario. This acknowledgment, however, is insufficient without our reckoning with the reality that every member of the Oratamin community since 1949 has benefited from these Native peoples’ displacement, and it is hollow without our efforts to counter the effects of structures that have long enabled—and that still perpetuate—injustice against Indigenous Americans. This acknowledgement demonstrates a commitment to beginning the process of working to dismantle the ongoing legacies of settler colonialism.
