Hold onto your butts.
New York City’s public pools turned into toilets at a surprisingly high rate last summer, as the parks department was forced to close its swimming holes 203 times to clean up a visitor’s poop.
Data obtained by Gothamist through a freedom of information request reveals the sheer scale of the defecation in the city’s cherished bathing areas. The incidents limited access to swimming across the city, which has already been strained for years by an ongoing lifeguard shortage…