{"id":14234,"date":"2009-10-05T13:29:09","date_gmt":"2009-10-05T17:29:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.IreneEng.com\/?p=14234"},"modified":"2009-10-05T13:29:09","modified_gmt":"2009-10-05T17:29:09","slug":"lets-play-at-grand-central","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/?p=14234","title":{"rendered":"Let&#8217;s play at Grand Central"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"right\" src=\"http:\/\/gothamist.com\/attachments\/nyc_arts_john\/031909courts.jpg\" alt=\"031909courts.jpg\" width=\"240\" height=\"161\" \/><em>Courtesy <a href=\"http:\/\/mas.org\/\">MAS<\/a><\/em><br \/>\n~ . ~<\/p>\n<p>A long time ago I played at the <a href=\"http:\/\/gothamist.com\/2009\/03\/19\/grand_central_tennis_courts_once_se.php\">Grand Central tennis<\/a>, a capacious old attic on the third floor of Grand Central Terminal, located <a href=\"http:\/\/gothamist.com\/2008\/03\/07\/some_grand_cent.php\">directly above Vanderbilt Hall<\/a>.  The courts were ok, not as comfortable as the newly renovated courts at USTA &#8211; given what it charged, $170 or so per hour.  The lady&#8217;s locker room was down the narrow and raw hallway to right at the end, a little eerie.  Metro-North administrators have decided to replace the courts with a rest area for conductors and train engineers.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Donald Trump had been leasing the courts for just $4 a square foot, while the average rent in the landmark terminal for restaurants and other retail shops is $99 a square foot.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Oh well .. it&#8217;s sad.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy MAS ~ . ~ A long time ago I played at the Grand Central tennis, a capacious old attic on the third floor of Grand Central Terminal, located directly above Vanderbilt Hall. The courts were ok, not as comfortable as the newly renovated courts at USTA &#8211; given what it charged, $170 or so [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[15,9],"class_list":["post-14234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-new-york","tag-tennis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14234","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14234"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14234\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tennis.ireneeng.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}