USTA BILLIE JEAN KING TENNIS CENTER
CDs 3, 4, & 6-9 C 130155 PPQ
PUBLIC HEARING:
IN THE MATTER OF an application submitted by the NYC Department of Parks and
Recreation (DPR) and the USTA National Tennis Center Inc., pursuant to Section 197-c of the
New York City Charter, for the disposition of a lease of city-owned property to the USTA
National Tennis Center Inc. located northerly of United Nations Avenue North, between
Meridian Road, and Path of Americas (Block 2018, p/o Lot 1) within Flushing Meadows-Corona
Park.
(On April 10, 2013, Cal. No. 6, the Commission scheduled April 24, 2013 for a public hearing
which has been duly advertised.)
Close the hearing.
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NOTICE
On Wednesday, April 24, 2013, at 10:00 a.m., in Spector Hall, at the Department of City
Planning, 22 Reade Street, in Lower Manhattan, a public hearing is being held by the
Department of Parks and Recreation in conjunction with the above ULURP hearing to
receive comments related to a Draft Environmental Impact Statement (DEIS) concerning a
disposition of non-residential City-owned land at the USTA Billie Jean King National
Tennis Center (NTC), located in Flushing Meadows Corona Park in Queens. The NTC is
located on a portion of Queens Block 2018, Lot 1, on park land leased by The City of New
York Department of Parks and Recreation to USTA National Tennis Center, Incorporated
(USTA). The leased site is bounded to the north by the railway tracks of Long Island 31
Railroad (LIRR)’s Port Washington line; United Nations Avenue North to the south; the
Passarelle Building and Path of the Americas to the east; and Grand Central Parkway to
the west. The proposed actions would facilitate a proposal to improve and expand USTA
facilities, collectively known as the NTC Strategic Vision. To accommodate the proposed
project, up to 0.94 acres of land would be added to the NTC site, including up to 0.68 acres
of park land that would be alienated. Written comments on the DEIS are requested and
would be received and considered by the Lead Agency through Monday, May 6, 2013.
This hearing is being held pursuant to the State Environmental Quality Review Act
(SEQRA) and City Environmental Quality Review (CEQR), CEQR No. 12DPR005Q.