Padel Courts in Queens, NY: Where to Play (2026 Guide)
Padel Courts in Queens, NY: Where to Play (2026 Guide)
Six courts, the highest ceiling in New York State, and one thing no directory tells you: neither venue is walk-in.
Queens is the last New York City borough we mapped, and it turned out to be the most interesting. It does not have the most courts — Brooklyn wins that comfortably — but its two venues sit at opposite ends of what American padel looks like in 2026: a five-court bubble with the highest ceiling in New York, and a single glass court on the lawn of a club that hosted the US Open for sixty years.
One thing no directory will tell you, so we will lead with it: neither padel court in Queens is walk-in. Both are membership-first. That does not mean you cannot play — it means you need to know the rules before you plan a session.
Padel in Queens: Two Courts, Two Very Different Experiences
Queens has six padel courts across two venues: five at Brisas at Cityview in Long Island City and one at West Side Tennis Club in Forest Hills. For context, we track 25 padel venues across New York State.
The split between them is unusually clean. Brisas is a purpose-built padel operation running inside a large racquet club — programming, coaching, daily clinics, a level-sorted WhatsApp system for finding a fourth. West Side is a historic tennis institution that added one court and is letting its membership discover the sport at its own pace. If you want to play padel three times a week, one of these is built for you; if you want to belong to a Queens club that happens to have a padel court, the other is.
Brisas at Cityview
Brisas runs the padel at CityView Racquet Club, a multi-sport complex in Long Island City — the stretch of Queens where warehouses are still turning into gyms and studios. It is the same team behind Brisas East Hampton and an Aspen location, and the New York build is their most ambitious: five panoramic terra-cotta courts under a temperature-controlled bubble that clears 50 feet.
That number is the reason to make the trip. Fifty feet is the highest ceiling of any padel venue in New York State — SPORTIME Randall's Island is next at 40 feet, and Kith Ivy at 35 — and the third-highest in our entire US database. In practice it means the lob is fully in play. Two-thirds of the US indoor clubs we track sit between 28 and 32 feet, and at that height a well-struck lob clips the roof and the tactic quietly disappears from the game. Here it does not. The club also leaves more than 13 feet between courts, so you are not reaching into a neighbouring rally to cover the side wall.
The courts sit alongside four squash courts and CityView's tennis program, which makes this the only club in New York City offering all three racquet sports under one roof. Padel runs 6am to 11pm daily, and there is a spa and cold plunge, a gym, a pro shop and an all-day café attached.
Getting there is the easy part. The 7 train's 33rd St–Rawson St stop is about two blocks away, a handful of stops from Grand Central and Times Square, and Queens Plaza (E/M/R) and Queensboro Plaza (7/N/W) are both walkable.
Access is the hard part. Booking goes through PlayByPoint and requires an account, so you cannot browse open times as a stranger. The Padel by Brisas membership is $275 a month plus a one-time $1,500 CityView initiation fee, currently discounted to $500 for padel founding members. Court time is charged on top, per person per hour: $30 off-peak and $40 peak for members. Non-members can play, but only as a member's guest — $55 off-peak and $75 peak, capped at eight visits a year. Members book up to two weeks ahead, with 30- and 90-minute slots available on weekdays between 7am and 4pm.
If you are arriving without a network, the club's WhatsApp groups are sorted by level and the daily clinics ($60) are the intended on-ramp. Private lessons are $210.
Courts: 5 | Type: Indoor | Ceiling: 50ft | Rating: 3.9★
West Side Tennis Club
There is a reasonable argument that this is the most storied twelve acres in American racquet sport. West Side hosted the US Open for sixty years and ten Davis Cup ties, and Forest Hills Stadium — the 14,000-seat bowl on the grounds — has spent its second life as a concert venue. The club has 38 tennis courts across grass, clay, Har-Tru and hard, ten playable year-round under climate control.
Since 2026 it also has a padel court. The club's own account, published on its blog in June, says the court has been in play since May and describes it as a real regulation surface — portable, but built to play like a permanent installation. Its racquets page now lists padel as a standing offering: an enclosed glass court with a turf floor, no overhead serve, and four players required every time.
The court arrived with a claim attached. When The Padel Paper covered the installation in March 2024, it was billed as the world's first dual padel and pickleball court — a modular product from Instantpadel with flooring by VersaCourt, ordered by West Side before any other venue. Do not let that shape your expectations, though: the club lists padel and its two pickleball courts as separate offerings today.
On visiting: you cannot. West Side is members-only, with no public booking and no guest day rate for padel. The club is accepting applications, and padel access is bundled into full membership alongside tennis, platform tennis and pickleball; a non-tennis membership carries limited playing privileges across the racquet sports. One local distinction worth knowing: West Side's "paddle" is platform tennis, a different sport on a different court, and directories confuse the two constantly.
Courts: 1 | Access: Members only
Queens vs Brooklyn vs Manhattan
Queens is a good place to play padel and a bad place to be spontaneous about it. If Brisas is full or the membership maths does not work, here is what is nearby.
Brooklyn has the depth. Padel Haus Williamsburg is the largest club in the city at seven indoor courts, Padel Haus DUMBO adds four at a 32-foot ceiling, and Padel Haus Greenpoint is the newest with five. Greenpoint is the closest of the three to western Queens — from Astoria or Long Island City it is a short hop over Newtown Creek. Golden Point Padel Club in Gravesend has two more, members only. Full rundown in our Brooklyn guide.
Manhattan has the variety. Reserve Hudson Yards is three outdoor courts open to non-members, SPORTIME Randall's Island has three indoor at 40 feet, and Mink Padel Club in West Harlem has two. Kith Ivy and Reserve Upper East Side are members-only. See our Manhattan guide.
The Bronx and Staten Island have nothing. Zero padel courts in either borough as of September 2026.
If your goal is simply to play this week without joining anything, the answer is not Queens — start with the clubs that sell court time to non-members. Our guide to public padel courts in the US covers the wider pattern: genuinely open-access padel is still rare in American cities.
What It Costs and When to Book
Queens padel pricing is member pricing, and the structure matters more than the headline number.
At Brisas, court fees are per person, per hour — not per court. Weekday mornings are the value slot, and they are also when the 30- and 90-minute bookings open up, which is useful if you would rather play 90 minutes than pad out two hours. Peak means weekday evenings and weekend mornings, and the two-week booking window is short by club standards, so a Wednesday 7pm slot needs a calendar reminder rather than good intentions. If you are visiting as a guest, note that the annual cap counts visits, not hours — spend your eight on prime-time sessions.
West Side publishes no padel rates because there is nothing to buy à la carte: padel comes with membership, and membership is an application.
Because Brisas is indoors and temperature-controlled, seasonality barely applies — which matters more in New York than in most markets. Our piece on indoor vs outdoor padel covers what a roof does to the ball and the lob.
Padel Coming to Queens
Nothing new has been announced in Queens. No permits, no signed leases, no operator claiming an Astoria or Flushing address — and we re-scan the state regularly. Given how much industrial space western Queens still has, that is more likely a timing gap than a verdict.
The nearest expansion is elsewhere in the metro: Padel Haus opened Greenpoint, its third Brooklyn club, this year, and out on Long Island, Roslyn Padel is running four courts ahead of a permanent club reported for 2027.
For now, Queens is a two-venue borough: one serious padel club with the best ceiling in the state, and one court behind a very old set of gates. You can check availability and club details for all 25 New York venues, or read the state-wide guide for the full picture.
Cover photo: Long Island City skyline by Kidfly182, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.
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