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Game, set & match for racquet club
Brokers serve up a $12.25 million megadeal for famed tennis center in Bayside
BY JENNA BAGCAL
Despite local efforts to
save the Bayside Tennis and
Racquets Club (NSTRC),
the historic athletic center
has reportedly been sold for
$12.25 million.
According to public
records, the Bayside Tennis
Corporation sold the
property at 34-28 214th St. to
6118 Bayside LLC.
Patch reported that the
sale took place on May 13,
but the Office of the City
Register did not publicize
the information until
May 30.
Records show that the
business is located at 35-22
Linden Place in Flushing.
QNS could not find other
public information linked
to the LLC.
Multiple sources
confirmed rumors of the
tennis club sale back in
December 2018. The sources
shared that former club
president George Pauliny
was looking to sell the
property without the
knowledge of many vested
club members.
Pauliny allegedly
presented the plan to 11
official board members
in September but the club
president instructed them to
keep it a secret from the 37
vested members of the over
100-year-old tennis club.
The club president and
board members privy to the
plan compelled members to
vote on a contract they had
drafted, which resulted in
a vote of 39 to 9 in favor
of the sale.
Developers would
then reportedly raze the
club grounds and fully
and partially vested club
members would earn money
based on time served on
the board. Sources said
that each member had the
potential to earn $8400 per
year served.
A month after news
surfaced, the community
rallied together in the hopes
of saving the beloved tennis
club. Bayside Historical
Society (BHS) organized a
rally to try and convince
the tennis club board to not
go through with the sale.
“An alternate plan that
would develop a portion of
the club, while keeping the
clubhouse and a number
of courts intact has been
presented to the club’s
Board of Directors, but
unfortunately was kept
from the entire voting
membership to consider,”
BHS President Paul
DiBenedetto told the crowd
at the January rally.
DiBenedetto and others
at the rally expressed
their displeasure with the
sale but said that if a sale
did occur, they hoped the
NSTRC would preserve
the historic clubhouse and
several tennis courts.
Reach reporter Jenna
Bagcal by email at jbagcal@
qns.com or by phone at (718)
224-5863 ext. 214.
TIME TO ‘TWIST & SPROUT’ IN FLUSHING
Queens families joined staff from NewYork-Presbyterian Queens on June 9 for “Twist & Sprout!”, a fun and educational afternoon at Queens Botanical Garden in
Flushing. The event was inspired by the pediatric residents from Weill Cornell Medicine during their training in community pediatrics at NewYork-Presbyterian
Queens. Photo courtesy of NewYork-Presbyterian Queens
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