1. 147th St. and Nicholas Ave, Manhattan 2. 123rd St. and Nicholas Ave, Manhattan 3. Columbia Oval on Gun Hill Rd, Bronx 4. 238th and Broadway, Bronx 5. 3081 Harding Ave, Bronx
The New York Lawn Tennis Club was founded in 1886.[1][2] Its first annual open tournament was held from September to October, 1886. It was played on dirt courts at 147th St. and Nicholas Ave. in Manhattan (Washington Heights section).[3]
Their quarters were demolished to make way for new construction in 1898.[4] The club's courts ceremoniously opened at 123rd St. and Nicholas Ave. in 1901.[5] The tournament games were played at the Columbia Oval from 1912 to 1917.[6] The club moved out of Manhattan to 238th and Broadway in the Bronx, 1918. It actually took over and restored the former house and courts of the West Side Tennis Club.[7] Its fourth and final move was to the Throggs Neck section of the Bronx in 1928.[8]
^The Sun (New York City), September, 22, 1887 p. 2 (dirt); The Evening World, September 17, 1888 p. 1 (2nd column, dirt); The Sun, September 21, 1888 p. 3 (clay); The New York Times, June 5, 1890 p. 2 (earth); The New York Tribune, May 27, 1906 p. 9 (clay). These are descriptions of the courts' surfaces.
^The Sun, September 19, 1898 p. 8. "Clubhouse has already been torn down." The Sun, May 14, 1899 pt. 2 p. 7. "Lost its courts last fall."
^New York Tribune, June 4, 1901 p. 8. Manhattan & Nicholas Aves. intersect.
^The Sun, October 8, 1917 p. 13; The New York Tribune, June 4, 1912 p. 9; Oct. 9, 1922 p. 19. This was a Columbia University athletic field in the Bronx.
^The Sun, April 14, 1918 p. 8. Subheading: "New York's New Home."
^ abAmerican Lawn Tennis, July 20, 1928, pp. 288–289; Dec. 20, 1928 p. 633.