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Tennis Center. If you want to pole vault, and high jump are. The 40/40 Club, a luxurious
play tennis rather than watch it, competitions are particularly sports bar chain, is owned by
look in the telephone direc tory exciting. Chelsea Piers also rapper Jay-Z. Bar None and
under “Tennis Courts: Public and has a complete track-and-field The Grafton are also favorites,
Private.” For private courts, you complex, plus myriad activities and for soccer try the amiable
can expect to pay about $50–70 such as bowling and a golf Tavern on Third in the
an hour. The Manhattan Plaza driving range. Gramercy, with friendly,
Racquet Club offers both courts Guinness-fueled crowds.
and lessons by the hour. For
public courts, you will need a Sports Bars
$15 single-play permit ($200 for New York City is crammed with
full-season permits), available sports bars, often unmissable Other Activities
from the NY City Parks & for their big screens, sports In Central Park, options include
Recreation Department. You banners, and cheering (or renting rowboats from Loeb
will also need an identity card booing), beer-guzzling patrons. Boathouse or playing chess –
and a reservation coupon. For a slice of American sports pick up the pieces from The
life, step into a sports bar when Dairy (see p202). Rent
a big game is on, and you’ll rollerblades at Blades and have
Track and Field soon be whooping it up with a free lesson on stopping at
The Millrose Games, which the rest of them. The Village Central Park before making a
draws top athletes from Pourhouse, Professor Thom’s, circuit. Bowling is available at
around the world, are nor mally and Croxley’s Ales, all in the Chelsea Piers and a few other
held in early February at East Village, offer a plethora of lanes throughout the city. The
the Washington Heights screens so that you can follow bar Slate Billiards offers pool
Armory. The 100-meter sprint, the action no matter where you and darts.

DIRECTORY
Aqueduct Race Track Citi Field Tel (516) 560-8200. StubHub!
Ozone Park, Queens. 126th St at Roosevelt Ave, ∑ newyorkjets.com ∑ stubhub.com
Tel (718) 641-4700. Flushing, Queens. National Tavern on Third
Tel (718) 507-8499. Tennis Center
Bar None Croxley’s Ales Flushing Meadows 380 3rd Ave.
98 3rd Ave. 28 Ave B. Map 5 B2. Park, Queens. Map 13 B3.
Tel (212) 300-4046.
Map 4 F1. Tel (212) 253-6140. Tel (718) 595-2420.
Tel (212) 777-6663. The Grafton ∑ usta.com Ticketmaster
Tel (212) 307-4100.
Barclays Center 126 1st Ave. Map 5 A2. NY City Parks ∑ ticketmaster.com
& Recreation
620 Atlantic Ave, Tel (212) 228-8580. Department Village Pourhouse
Brooklyn. Lasker Ice Rink Arsenal Building, 64 3rd Ave.
Tel (212) 359-6387. Central Park Drive East at 64th St & 5th Ave.
108th St. Map 21 B4. Map 12 F2. Map 4 F1.
Belmont Park Tel (212) 534-7639. Tel (212) 408-0100. Tel (212) 979-2337.
Race Track Loeb Boathouse ∑ nycgovparks.org Washington Heights
Hempstead Turnpike, Central Park. Map 16 F5. Plaza Rink Armory
Long Island. Tel (212) 517-2233. 1 Rockefeller Plaza, 216 Fort Washington Ave.
Tel (718) 641-4700. Madison Square 5th Ave. Map 12 F5. Tel (212) 923-1803.
Garden Tel (212) 332-7654. Wollman Rink
Blades
7th Ave at 33rd St. Map 8 Professor Thom’s Central Park,
659 Broadway.
E2. Tel (212) 465-6741. 219 2nd Ave. 5th Ave at 59th St.
Map 4 E2. ∑ thegarden.com Map 4 F1. Map 12 F2.
Tel (212) 477-7350. Tel (212) 260-9480.
Manhattan Plaza Tel (212) 439-6900.
Chelsea Piers Sports Racquet Club Prudential Center Yankee Stadium
& Entertainment 450 W 43rd St. 25 Lafayette St, 161st and 164th sts,
Complex Map 7 C1. Newark. The Bronx.
Tel (212) 594-0554.
Tel (973) 757-6000.
Piers 59–62 at 23rd St & ∑ prucenter.com Tel (718) 293-4300.
11th Ave (Hudson River). MetLife Stadium Slate Billiards Yonkers Raceway
1 MetLife Stadium Dr,
Map 7 B4–5. East Rutherford, NJ. 54 W 21st St. Yonkers, Westchester
Tel (212) 336-6000. Tel (201) 559-1515. Map 8 E4. County.
∑ chelseapiers.com ∑ metlifestadium.com Tel (212) 989-0096. Tel (914) 968-4200.

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