New paid summer swim safety program helping with NYC’s worst lifeguard shortage

FLUSHING, Queens (PIX11) -- New York City's summer swimming season is faced with its worst lifeguard shortage on record. A new paid summer swim safety program is helping put young New Yorkers on the fast track to becoming future lifeguards. At the Flushing Meadows Corona Park Aquatic Center, 25 New Yorkers were in the water, getting [...]