Want to splash down in style? Try these chic new hotel pools.
* The James New York, 27 Grand St.;212-465-2000.
Guests here can take in unobstructed, almost-360-degree views at the rooftop bar, lounge and pool deck. The smallish 20-by-8½-foot pool is only 4 feet deep — serious swimmers might want to go elsewhere.
Post-swim, rinse off in the nearby outdoor shower, then relax with a cocktail from Jimmy, the glass-enclosed bar.
* Dream Downtown, 355 W. 16th St.;212-229-2559.
Exhibitionists will love the see-through pool bottom, which looks directly from its second-floor perch into the hotel lobby below. After you get your fill of practicing your cannonball, park yourself at one of the picnic tables in the sandy-beach area.
Go for a sunset dip every Saturday from 5:30 to 10 p.m., when the hotel hosts its weekly pool party series. Best of all, there’s no admission fee or spending minimum.
* Gansevoort Park Avenue, 420 Park Ave. South; 212-929-0067, gansevoortsummerseries.com.
Practice your laps on the 18th floor of the posh hotel with the Empire State Building in the background. The 40-foot-long rooftop pool (not to be confused with the bacteria-laden one at the hotel’s Meatpacking District location) sports a mosaic of a pin-up girl at the bottom and is surrounded by blue chaise lounges.
On Sundays the pool, usually reserved only for guests, welcomes the public from 3 to 9 p.m., as long as it pays for table reservations, starting at $2,000. Hot deejay Dirty Dutch Party will spin there tomorrow.