http://www.mccarrentennis.org Dedicated to the renovation of the tennis courts in McCarren Park, Brooklyn Sat, 04 Sep 2010 02:32:30 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Now that the dust has settled, wanted to take a moment to talk about the future. The selection of McCarren for the Fresh Courts grant resulted from a lot of hard work and effort from our volunteers, but it also was plain old lucky -- there are a lot of ... http://www.mccarrentennis.org/?p=612 Play has begun on our newly refurbished courts.  We still have a few small net adjustments and the fencing on the Quickstart courts needs to be put up, but everything else is good to go.  Thanks for your patience -- hope the results speak for themselves! Next up, windscreens.  We just ... http://www.mccarrentennis.org/?p=607 We still can't promise any courts will be available for play tomorrow, but for you diehards who don't mind coming down, there could be a few that are dry. UPDATE 6:13 pm: Three courts are striped, but all three are missing one of the service lines.  Assuming they did this to ... http://www.mccarrentennis.org/?p=602 The WSJ is not normally known for its sports coverage, but they did a great job with this piece.  Check out the video here: http://www.mccarrentennis.org/?p=599 Still on schedule for a grand opening on Friday. http://www.mccarrentennis.org/?p=596 This just in from Thomas Hinding, who's doing the resurfacing work on our courts: "We are working the weekend to make up for the rain last week. Looks like we will be putting the blue and green down by Monday, striping on Tuesday, and ready to play on Wednesday." Other key news: ... http://www.mccarrentennis.org/?p=590 Just saw this and recorded it off the TV.  It's different than the NY1 piece linked to below and features our own Sean Hoess. http://www.mccarrentennis.org/?p=582 This morning's press conference brought a roster of heavy hitters (sorry, couldn't resist) to McCarren's tennis courts which are mid-way through renovations due to be completed next week. There were too many to name here but representatives from American Express, the USTA, City Council, NYC Parks & Recreation, OSA, and ... http://www.mccarrentennis.org/?p=562 This Thursday, August 26th at 10AM Tennis stars Sam Querry and Melanie Oudin will be at McCarren Park for a press conference to announce the AMEX/USTA "Fresh Courts" grant.  All are welcome to attend! Also in attendance will be  Julius Spiegel, Brooklyn Borough Commissioner for New York City Department of Parks ... http://www.mccarrentennis.org/?p=558 While it's painful to see the court we resurfaced ourselves get worked on in the photo below, I'm sure we will forget all about it when the new, US Open-style blue courts are finished. UPDATE:  Click here to see some photos of the progress taken Saturday morning, August 21st. http://www.mccarrentennis.org/?p=553