Crotona Park, Bronx
A Project of the Department of Parks & Recreation and the New York Junior Tennis League
Peter Gluck and Partners Architects

The new flagship for the New York Junior Tennis League, the Cary Leeds Center will host local, national, and international tournaments and provide free lessons and academic enrichment to New York City's public school students. The Center boasts two sunken tournament courts with spectator seating, 20 standard courts, and a multipurpose clubhouse. The clubhouse is composed of a series of angular planes overlaid to create enclosed and open-air spaces with views of the adjacent courts. To lessen its presence in the landscape, the clubhouse is set below grade, opening onto the sunken courts, thereby reducing the massing visible from Crotona Avenue.

Design Team

Peter Gluck and Partners, Architects
Sam Currie; Stéphane Derveaux; Marc Gee; Peter L. Gluck; Robert Wall

Starr Whitehouse Landscape Architects and Planners
Laura Starr ASLA, LEED AP, Partner; Jeffrey Poor RLA/ASLA LEED AP, Studio Director; Paul Appleton, Landscape Designer

Robert Silman Associates
Nat Oppenheimer PE, Principal; Pat Arnett PE, Associate; Alexander Baumel, Engineer

eConstruct
Maher Tadros, Principal; Sameh El Ashri, Principal; Nick P. Reiser, Project Manager; Brad Schipper, Manager Commercial Precast Solutions

Rossini Engineering
David Rossini PE, Principal; Steven Graham PE, Mechanical Engineer; Vladimir Grubisic, Electrical Engineer; Natasha Gogonova, Plumbing/Sprinkler Engineer; Zvonimir Antolos, CADD Operator

RA Consultants
Walter J. Papp, Jr. PE, Senior Partner; Robert Alperstein PE D.GE, Partner

Mike Wein
Mike Wein PE

Fehringer Surveying
Robert Fehringer

Pentagram
Eddie Opara, Partner; Erin Wahed, Project Manager; Brankica Harvey, Senior Designer

LuxPopuli
Thomas Paterson, Director; Oriana Romero Nava, Lighting Designer

Global Sport & Tennis Design Group
Alex Levitsky; Sheldon Westervelt PE

Department of Parks & Recreation
Adrian Benepe, Commissioner; Thérèse Braddick, Deputy Commissioner for Capital Projects; Elizabeth Smith, Assistant Commissioner for Revenue and Marketing; Hector Aponte, Bronx Borough Commissioner; Jonna Carmona-Graf, Chief of Capital Program Management; Nancy Prince RLA, Deputy Chief of Design; Raymundo Gomez RLA, Deputy Chief of Management Services; Charles Kloth, Director of Concessions; Andrew Penzi RLA, Bronx Team Leader; James Mituzas RLA, Senior Landscape Architect; Michael Bolger RLA, Landscape Architect; Anthony Macari RA, Revenue Architect; Christopher Farnum, Assistant Architect & Design Commission Liaison; Michael Michalek RLA, CADD Specialist

The New York Junior Tennis League
Dalia Leeds, Cary Leeds Center Campaign Chair; Larry Leeds, Cary Leeds Center Campaign Chair; Elena Kiam, Cary Leeds Center Campaign Chair; Tory Kiam, Cary Leeds Center Campaign Chair; Deborah Antoine, President & Chief Executive Officer; Lewis "Skip" Hartman, Chairman Emeritus; Martin S. Goldberg, Chairman; Carlos Cuevas, Vice Chairman; Steven Simkin Esq., Vice Chairman & Vice President; Robert Horne, Vice Chairman & Treasurer; Saleem Khatri, Architect Representative; Chris Ramdhani, Chief Financial Officer; Stephen H. Shane, General Counsel; Jaclinn Tanney, Director of Development