There also used to be a tennis "bubble" on 153rd Ave & 79st, that was also developed around 1980.
There are also tennis courts and a tennis "bubble".
The idea behind the tennis bubble was cultivated in a military project.
A tennis bubble would be ideal, Margetson suggested to Bird.
The only reception area, Ms. Haywood added, is in a trailer attached to the tennis bubble.
The dormitories resemble huge tennis bubbles and are being built on cement platforms.
And consultants for the project said that it was completed in a hurry, under a 22,500-square-foot air-supported "tennis bubble" to allow for winter work.
But Monday's blizzard imperiled the club's two tennis bubbles, which cover six courts.
Now, a tennis bubble and soccer fields have gobbled up some, but not all, of the many baseball diamonds.
The property includes three piers: 9, which is decrepit; and 13 and 14, with tennis bubbles on them.