Alan Moss, the parks department's deputy commissioner for operations, said the department had never accepted the idea for a tax assessment district.

"The mall is the poor man's oasis on the Upper West Side," said Alan Moss of the Department of Parks.

"We're simply not optimistic," said Alan Moss, the first deputy commissioner for the Department of Parks and Recreation, the agency that recruits the expert swimmers.

"There seems to have been a loss of interest in public schools for swimming programs," Alan Moss, the deputy parks commissioner, explained.

But in the mind's eye of Alan Moss, the natatorium remained forever natty.

One year the yard had help from Frank Tyson, Alan Moss, and Peter Loader.

"In this period it's totally couture furniture," said Alan Moss, who has a gallery at 436 Lafayette Street, just east of SoHo.

Alan Moss restored it, and is selling it for $85,000.

At least that is the opinion of Alan Moss, a New York furniture dealer who specializes in midcentury chic.

At Alan Moss, 88 Wooster Street.