http://nypress.com/central-park-tennis-bubble-loses-east-side-support/ New York's essential guide to culture, arts, politics, news and more Mon, 04 Mar 2013 11:49:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://nypress.com/central-park-tennis-bubble-loses-east-side-support/#comment-722 pkdny Fri, 02 Apr 2010 20:11:00 +0000 http://westsidespirit.com/?p=4629#comment-722 Central Park Bubble- “Winter Only”-Here's the catch.
I ventured over to Randal's Island “Public” Courts two weeks ago on a beautiful Saturday. As you may know, Randal's Island has a Bubble over its courts same as CP wants to install. It was March 20th. I asked about the public play and was told that the public courts are not available until May 29th. I was also told that the courts close to the public Sept 8th. When I incredulously asked the manager why this was so, when Central Park tennis courts open April 3 and generally run deep into November, he flippantly told me,”That’s the deal” as he blew me off.
So… the Randal's Island “Public” Courts are only public for 3 months out of the year. With August being almost unplayable because of the heat, that's really two months. Central Park Tennis Courts have historically been open 8 months of the year. If they install a bubble, “for the winter only”, will it continue to be open to public play for the same 8 months????? I venture to say no it wouldn’t.
If indeed they are able to provide the same 8 month public access with a bubble, than I would be for it. Otherwise, no way. With the Taxes in this town through the roof, this would be an extremely unfair takeaway.
And BTW, how did Randal's Island ever get such as “deal” to begin with? This is unconscionable and must be rectified.

]]> http://nypress.com/central-park-tennis-bubble-loses-east-side-support/#comment-721 GreenTennis Fri, 26 Mar 2010 20:06:46 +0000 http://westsidespirit.com/?p=4629#comment-721 Correction “The City should erect..”

]]> http://nypress.com/central-park-tennis-bubble-loses-east-side-support/#comment-720 GreenTennis Fri, 26 Mar 2010 20:00:15 +0000 http://westsidespirit.com/?p=4629#comment-720 Is no one mentioning the energy consuming nature of a Pressurized Bubble…. The Bubble should erect a structure with greater care for the environment.

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