The Kew Gardens Country Club

The tennis courts were in the back of the Club. They extended across the south side of Austin Street past the site of the present day Kew Gardens Post Office. In 1912, New York City's West Side Tennis Club considered moving to a site in Kew Gardens owned by the Man Family. However the asking price was considered too high and the property thought too inaccessible to Manhattan. Forest Hills got the nod instead.

[Click here to read a history of the West Side Tennis club in Forest Hills]

References: Barry Lewis, Kew Gardens: Urban Village in the Big City, pp. 16, 21 - 22, 23, 27 (Kew Gardens Council for Recreation and the Arts 1999); Robert Minton, Forest Hills, pp. 41 - 42 (J.P. Lippincott Co. 1975). Circa 1926 picture from the Lucy Ballenas Collection courtesy of Carl Ballenas.

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