New York, a city of subcultures, has a gem on Manhattan’s West Side. Bordered by 94th and 96th Streets, between the Onassis Reservoir and the West Drive of one of the world’s most famous public spaces, sits the Central Park Tennis Center.
Constructed in 1930, the Central Park Tennis Center is a disjointed combination of stately neo-Classical architecture and what might be termed a bureaucratic tastelessness. It has pillars of limestone, and the exterior wall, recently renovated, is composed of a stucco with no identifiable color. Wedged between the steel grates over the center’s windows are house finch nests and stray tennis balls.
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