Van Voorhees Park Tennis Courts — Local services in New York

The tennis courts are totally fine, but cracked and faded. They’re not nice or special - but just adequate and that’s totally cool with me. 2 courts, one with a bench.

Reserving courts is painful. Someday maybe we’ll get the internet but it’s a ~6am paper list. NOTE: I arrived at 5:50am flat on Saturday in April and every slot from 8am-1pm was filled, plus a few after. I heard there may be some kind of “committee” that gets to put names in night before, but that sounds lame and I hope it’s not true. So it’s just to say: get there earlier than you want if you want a time you want. By 9am there were no spots.

BUT silver lining: if you like playing against a wall as an alternative, there’s ~5 walls to hit agains right across the street (maybe same park).

It’s close to freeway exit and so there’s a lot of cars and trucks.

Can be a little windy.

Lots of space and play areas for kids otherwise.

AND bathrooms! (Maybe not in the winter though)

(Snow pics are...

The courts aren't in good condition but the real problem is the sign up situation where there's supposedly a system but really it's just random people - not a parks dept employee or anything - who put up an unauthorized sheet with names prefilled and then we have to abide by it. I understand that getting a court in NYC is hard but this is...

The men restroom need up date,the toilet and the urine need to be separated, is not right that some one need to do # 1 and have to wait to the person is doing # 2,because the urine thing is on the same spot where the toilet is,it...