<p>Are there any tennis courts @ NYU? and if so, are they crowded all the time?</p>
<p>There’s just one crappy one in the basement of coles. The roof courts are closed for like the 4th year in a row. You’re better off walking to the west side courts in the morning and playing. Go down to Houston and walk west all the way to the west side highway, cross west st and then turn south. Courts are right there…3 of them. 1hr playing time max.</p>
<p>are those courts crowded?</p>
<p>there’s plenty of public tennis courts in NYC.</p>
<p>while there are plenty of public courts in NYC, you need to buy a permit to play on almost all of them. I think it’s $100…</p>
<p>the west side courts are crowded all day after about 11am…but they do have lights. center court is down though after dusk, some lighting problems.</p>
<p>is it 100 for the year?</p>
<p>You must be mistaken. I have been a Manhattan resident my entire life and have never paid to play on a public court. You can get to private courts that would cost around $60-80 per month that would be more like a fitness center. Queens has the greatest tennis courts (think US open,) but even central park has free courts. here’s some info:</p>
<p>[Tennis</a> in Central Park - CentralPark.com](<a href=“Your Complete Guide to New York City's Central Park”>Your Complete Guide to New York City's Central Park)</p>
<p>“Requirements: All players must have season or single-play (one-time use) permits.”</p>
<p>i’m confused ><</p>
<p>I am not mistaken. Go to the parks department website. There are single use and yearly permits…and they apply to pretty much all tennis courts. </p>
<p>The west side courts do not require a permit but only haves 1hr playing time. </p>
<p>Btw I live in north jersey and play tennis in ny and my brother went to nyu for 4 years…so we both have experience playing in the city.</p>
<p>Sansri is right. I did quite a bit of research last week on the state of tennis in the manhattan area and unless you plan on playing on the 3 west side courts near W Houston, you will either need to rent a court from a private club or buy a permit to use the public courts. If you choose to go with the public option, a single play ticket costs $7 for 1 hour of singles or 2 hours of doubles if I’m not mistaken. Most of the time, you have to show up early to reserve a court. You can also reserve over the internet for the Central Park courts, but I believe that carries an additional fee of $7.</p>
<p>You can also buy a season pass, which lasts from April to November 22 and costs $100 regardless of when you buy it. It technically entitles you to play one hour per day on any of the public courts but I believe you can actually play for more than 1 hr if you move to a new location. For example, at Central Park, the attendant on duty marks your permit with a permanent marker to signify that you’ve played there once already on that day (there’s a calendar on the back of a season pass) but I went to the Lower East Side courts at East River Park on the same day and the attendant there didn’t bother to check or mark the card again. Therefore, if you want to play longer and don’t mind moving to another location, it’s possible to play multiple times in 1 day.</p>
<p>There’s also the option of playing in one of the other boroughs. I’ve heard that many courts in Queens are relatively deserted and are not regulated or staffed by attendants, meaning you can get on without needing a permit. However, the inability to get there and back in a reasonable amount of time becomes a huge issue, at least for me.</p>
<p>In my opinion, manhattan is probably the least tennis-friendly location that I’ve ever lived in. You have to be pretty devoted to tennis in order to tolerate the way they do things here. In addition, NYU is not exactly fanatical about its sports, which means that most people here care even less about tennis. In fact, I can count on one hand the number of people I saw carrying tennis racquets during all of freshman year. There are a couple of websites where tennis players can look for people to play with, and so far this year, I’ve relied almost exclusively on these sites. The problem is that there is a relatively small number of experienced players around manhattan (which I believe is a result of the inadequate public tennis system) so it is rather difficult to find people to play with, particularly if you’re around the 4.0-4.5 level or above.</p>
<p>Are the courts only open during the season?</p>