Cary Leeds Center for Tennis and Learning

The project is a public/private partnership between the New York City Department of Parks and Recreation and New York Junior Tennis & Learning, a not-for-profit, as concessionaire. The Cary Leeds Center for Tennis & Learning is a multi-use venue, where New York City’s underserved children will receive free tennis lessons and academic enrichment. The project is comprised of a two-story clubhouse and educational facility, with two world-class exhibition courts and 20 outdoor courts, 10 of which are indoors seasonally under air structures. As the new flagship site for New York Junior Tennis & Learning, it will also host local, national and international tournaments in a 127-acre recreational setting of natural parkland in Crotona Park. The building and stadium courts are partially buried as a strategy to minimize the impact of a large structure in the park and to take advantage of natural geothermal heating and cooling of below ground surfaces.