Padel Comes to Westchester County: Cross Court, Hawthorne
Padel Comes to Westchester County: Cross Court, Hawthorne
Four indoor courts in Hawthorne give Westchester its first bookable padel — and close the last gap on the NYC-area map.
Westchester County spent the entire American padel boom on the sidelines. Brooklyn stacked up five clubs, Long Island filled in from Syosset to Montauk, and Manhattan got everything from a Hudson Yards rooftop to a members-only room inside a fashion house. The county immediately north of New York City had nothing — not one bookable court. That has changed: Cross Court Pickleball + Padel now runs four indoor padel courts in Hawthorne.
Padel arrives in Westchester
Cross Court operates two buildings, both in Hawthorne, both in the 10532 ZIP code — which is where most of the confusion about this club comes from. The original site at 5 Browns Lane is pickleball only. The newer Skyline building at 16 Skyline Drive is the one that matters here: six dedicated pickleball courts plus four dedicated padel courts, all indoor. If you are searching for the padel, it is the Skyline address you want.
The club calls itself home to "Westchester County's first dedicated indoor Pickleball facility and first dedicated indoor Padel facility." Our directory backs the padel half of that claim. Of 26 active clubs in New York, Cross Court is the only one inside Westchester's borders — and the only club anywhere in the lower Hudson Valley that sells court time to the public.
One caveat, because it will otherwise waste your afternoon: several padel aggregator sites list courts at New Rochelle Racquet Club and at Flint Park in Mamaroneck. Neither is real. Both facilities' own websites mention padel exactly zero times — they are tennis operations that got scraped into a padel index by mistake.
Cross Court Pickleball + Padel, Hawthorne
Cross Court Pickleball + Padel
Hawthorne sits in the middle of Westchester, just off the Taconic and about thirty miles north of Midtown, with its own stop on Metro-North's Harlem Line into Grand Central. That geography is the whole pitch. Until now, a Westchester player who wanted padel drove to Queens, Randall's Island, or Brooklyn — a real commitment for a 90-minute game. Cross Court turns that into a local errand, and it does it indoors, seven days a week, in a county that loses its outdoor racquet season in November.
The four padel courts share a roof with six pickleball courts, and the crowd reflects it: plenty of crossover players trying padel for the first time, plus a growing core who came for the glass. Courts are fitted with PlaySight AI for recording, playback, and live streaming — Skyline only, as a paid add-on.
Courts: 4 | Type: Indoor
From pickleball to padel — why the conversion story matters
Cross Court did not build a padel club. It built a pickleball club and then added padel — and that is the more interesting story, because it is the template most of the country will follow.
An established indoor pickleball operator already has the hard parts solved: the clear-span building, the ceiling height, the lighting, the HVAC, the booking software, and — most valuable of all — a membership list of people who already drive there on a Tuesday night. Adding padel is a court-build against an existing audience rather than a bet on a cold market. Expect a lot more of it.
The crossover is not automatic, though. The paddle is solid and the ball is pressurised, but padel's walls, underhand serve, and doubles-only geometry reward different instincts entirely. Coming over from pickleball, start with what transfers and what doesn't and padel vs pickleball.
Booking, memberships and court tech
Booking runs through CourtReserve, and padel has its own scheduler separate from the pickleball one — worth knowing, because landing on the pickleball calendar and concluding the club has no padel is an easy mistake. Bookable formats include court rentals, padel open play, padel clinics, and private or semi-private lessons. The club lists hours of 7:00 AM to 10:00 PM daily.
Cross Court sells tiered memberships, and pricing is genuinely complicated: rates vary by location (Skyline only, Hawthorne only, or both), by peak versus off-peak, by lesson group size, and by whether you want the PlaySight courts. Guest passes are priced per reservation, so bringing a non-member is an explicit, costed option rather than a grey area. The club's public pages route everything through a CourtReserve account, so call 914-662-8200 first if you want to know whether you can book a one-off hit without joining.
The rest of the NYC-area padel map
Cross Court closes the last obvious gap in the metro area's padel map, but it is not the only option north or east of the city. The Tuxedo Club has two outdoor courts across the Hudson in Orange County, though it is a private club. Heading south, Brisas at Cityview in Queens and SPORTIME Randall's Island are the closest indoor courts to Westchester, with Reserve Upper East Side and Kith Ivy filling in Manhattan.
For the full picture, see our guides to where to play padel in New York, Brooklyn, Manhattan, and Long Island.
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