Where to Play Pickleball in Queens, New York (2026)

Last reviewed 16 July 2026 against every venue's primary source. We list 12 open and verified pickleball venues in Queens, plus 7 more that are open (one still under construction) but currently at needs-verification while we confirm court counts, hours, or in a couple of cases whether pickleball is even offered at the address in question.

Queens is the largest of the five boroughs by land area, and its pickleball scene reflects that in a way Manhattan's simply can't. This isn't one dense island where every venue is a short walk from every other — it's roughly 15 miles from Astoria in the northwest corner down to Far Rockaway on the peninsula, with real neighborhoods and real distances in between: Long Island City, Flushing, Bayside, Whitestone, Maspeth, Jamaica, Queens Village. Nineteen open pickleball records in our dataset are spread across all of that, and the shape they form is genuinely different from Manhattan's boutique-club patchwork: a real cluster of paid indoor clubs concentrated in one neighborhood (Long Island City, a single subway stop from Manhattan), two large hybrid tennis-and-pickleball centers that exist because Queens actually has the land for them, and a long tail of free NYC Parks courts scattered across a dozen neighborhoods rather than clustered near midtown.

Twelve of Queens' 19 open records are verified against a primary source as of this review. The other seven are real, findable venues — two YMCA branches, three more NYC Parks locations, one recreation center with a documented source conflict, and one Long Island City club expansion still under construction — that we're naming honestly rather than either hiding them or claiming more certainty than we have.

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The short answer for each type of player

• You want a paid indoor club close to a subway, LIC-style. Court 16 Long Island City (13-06 Queens Plaza S) bills itself as the only permanent indoor pickleball courts in Queens; it's a membership tennis-club brand with court rental at $110/hr peak ($88/hr non-peak), open play at $36/class, and an annual pickleball membership at $420.
• You want the CityPickle brand but indoors and year-round. CityPickle Long Island City (9-03 44th Rd) runs 4 climate-controlled indoor courts with a bar and restaurant on site — unlike CityPickle's seasonal Central Park operation in Manhattan, this one is open year-round.
• You want a dedicated pickleball-only club with the highest local rating. Gotham Pickleball (5-25 46th Ave) has 4 Laykold Cushion Plus courts, open daily 5 AM–2 AM, memberships from $120–$150/month, and a 4.9 Google rating from 62 reviews — the best-rated pickleball venue in Queens.
• You want the biggest single facility in the borough. Active Pickleball & Tennis Center at Queens College (APTC) (153rd St & Reeves Ave, Flushing) has 18 total courts — 12 indoor, 6 outdoor — open to the public on the Queens College campus, with a $325/year membership or non-member rates.
• You want indoor and outdoor courts under one roof, near Alley Pond Park. Commonpoint Tennis and Athletic Center at Alley Pond (79-20 Winchester Blvd, Queens Village) has 10 courts (6 indoor + 4 outdoor), court rental from $32–$42/hr, and open play from $20–$25 per 2-hour session.
• You want free, walk-on outdoor courts and don't mind bringing your own paddle. Queens has six confirmed free NYC Parks locations, from Astoria Park (4 courts, bring your own portable net) in the northwest to Crocheron Park in Bayside (6 courts, permanent nets, 6 AM–9 PM).
• You're on the Rockaway peninsula. Rockaway Beach and Boardwalk Pickleball Courts (Beach 101-102 St & Shore Front Pkwy, Far Rockaway) is a single free outdoor court, dawn to dusk, right off the boardwalk.
• You want free indoor courts and don't mind an NYC Parks recreation-center membership. Roy Wilkins Recreation Center (177-01 Baisley Blvd, Jamaica) has 7 courts total (3 indoor + 4 outdoor), with outdoor open play Mon/Wed/Fri 10 AM–1 PM (spring–fall) and seasonal indoor sessions Mon/Tue/Thu.

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The Long Island City cluster: Queens' answer to FiDi <a id="lic"></a>

If Manhattan's paid pickleball scene splits between the Financial District and Hell's Kitchen, Queens' equivalent is concentrated almost entirely in Long Island City — walkable to the 7, E, M, G, and N/W trains, and close enough to Midtown that several of these clubs market themselves explicitly to Manhattan commuters.

• Court 16 Long Island City (13-06 Queens Plaza S, Long Island City, NY 11101) — the LIC branch of the same Court 16 brand that operates in Manhattan's FiDi, and the one that markets itself as the only permanent indoor pickleball courts in Queens. Regular-season hours run Mon 9 AM–10 PM, Tue–Thu 7 AM–10 PM, Fri 7 AM–8:30 PM, Sat–Sun 8 AM–5 PM (shorter summer hours apply). Court rental is $110/hr for up to 6 players ($88/hr non-peak); open play runs $36 per class or $148.50 for a 5-pack; an annual single pickleball membership is $420. The official site consistently references 6 courts in third-party mentions but doesn't state the number explicitly on its own page — we're treating that field as confirmed-by-context rather than fully primary-sourced, though the venue's existence, address, hours, and pricing are all confirmed. Google rating: 4.5 from 118 reviews.
• CityPickle Long Island City (9-03 44th Rd, Long Island City, NY 11101) — 4 climate-controlled indoor courts with a bar and restaurant, open Mon–Thu 7 AM–9 PM, Fri 7 AM–10 PM, Sat 8 AM–10 PM, Sun 8 AM–9 PM. Unlike CityPickle's Wollman Rink operation in Central Park, this location runs indoors year-round rather than as a seasonal build-out. Pricing and a phone number aren't published on the official location page (only a location email); the record stays fully verified on the fields that are confirmed. Google rating: 4.4 from 134 reviews.
• Gotham Pickleball (5-25 46th Ave, Long Island City, NY 11101) — 4 Laykold Cushion Plus indoor courts, open daily 5 AM–2 AM. Memberships run $120/month standard or $150/month premier; non-member court booking is $80/hr off-peak or $110/hr peak; open play runs $20–$40. No phone is published — booking runs through the app or site only. This is the highest-rated pickleball venue in Queens: 4.9 from 62 reviews. Gotham opened this location in December 2024 and, per the local news coverage in our sources, is building a second LIC location a few blocks away (see the needs-verification section below).

Between these three, Long Island City has more dedicated paid indoor pickleball square footage than anywhere else in Queens, and it's growing — Gotham's second location is under construction as of this review.

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The big hybrid centers: Alley Pond and Queens College <a id="hybrid"></a>

Queens has room that Manhattan doesn't, and these two facilities are what that room buys: large multi-court centers combining indoor and outdoor pickleball with tennis, built on campus or park-adjacent land rather than squeezed into a commercial floor plate.

• Active Pickleball & Tennis Center at Queens College (APTC) (153rd St & Reeves Ave, Flushing, NY 11367) — the largest pickleball facility in Queens by court count: 18 total courts, 12 indoor and 6 outdoor, climate-controlled indoors with renovated outdoor courts, open to the public on the Queens College campus. Hours run Mon–Fri 9 AM–10 PM, Sat–Sun 7:30 AM–8 PM. An annual membership is $325 (includes a parking pass, $5 off court rentals, and waived program-registration fees); non-member rates are also available. Google rating: 4.1 from 61 reviews.
• Commonpoint Tennis and Athletic Center at Alley Pond (79-20 Winchester Blvd, Queens Village, NY 11427) — 10 courts, 6 indoor and 4 outdoor, at the southern end of Alley Pond Park. Indoor courts run October–May (8 AM–10 PM); outdoor courts run the warmer months (8 AM–8 PM). Court rental is $32/hr prime (weekdays 8 AM–3 PM) or $42/hr non-prime (weekdays 3–10 PM); open play runs $20–$25 per 2-hour session; membership is also offered. Google rating: 4.3 from 236 reviews — the largest review base of any Queens pickleball venue in this dataset. Note this is a distinct facility from the free NYC Parks courts also located in Alley Pond Park (below) — same park, two unrelated operators.

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Free NYC Parks courts, borough-wide <a id="nyc-parks"></a>

Six confirmed, verified free outdoor locations are spread across Queens, run by NYC Parks. None require a permit or reservation for casual play; all are first-come, first-served. Bring your own paddle, and in most cases your own net — several of these have lines only.

• Astoria Park Pickleball Courts (80 21st St, Astoria, NY 11105) — 4 outdoor lined courts at Triborough Bridge Playground A within Astoria Park. Lines only, no permanent nets — bring your own portable net. Dawn to dusk daily, free. The courts closed briefly for construction in 2024 and reopened per local reporting confirmed in July 2025.
• Crocheron Park Pickleball Courts (214-41 34th Ave, Bayside, NY 11361) — 6 outdoor hard courts with permanent lines and nets, no lights, daily 6 AM–9 PM.
• Alley Pond Park Pickleball Courts (79-30 Winchester Blvd, Queens, NY 11364) — 4 dedicated outdoor hard courts near Winchester Blvd & Union Turnpike, opened July 2024 as a $28,000 NYC Parks project. No lights, sunrise to sunset. Separate from the paid Commonpoint facility in the same park.
• Louis Pasteur Park Pickleball Courts (52-43 248th St, Queens, NY 11362) — 2 outdoor courts in the Little Neck/Douglaston area, converted from tennis, permanent nets, daily 6 AM–10 PM.
• Francis Lewis Park Pickleball Court (3rd Ave & 147th St, Whitestone, NY 11357) — a single standalone court opened July 15, 2024, with a permanent net and lines, restrooms and water on site. Dawn to dusk daily, free.
• Rockaway Beach and Boardwalk Pickleball Courts (Beach 101-102 St & Shore Front Pkwy, Far Rockaway, NY 11694) — 1 outdoor court, dawn to dusk daily, free, right off the boardwalk on the peninsula.

That's a lot more geographic spread than Manhattan's six free locations, and it reaches neighborhoods — Bayside, Whitestone, Little Neck, Far Rockaway — that are nowhere near the subway lines most visitors think of as "Queens."

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The rec-center option: Roy Wilkins <a id="roy-wilkins"></a>

Roy Wilkins Recreation Center Pickleball (177-01 Baisley Blvd, Jamaica, NY 11434) is Queens' one verified NYC Parks recreation-center option, offering 7 total courts — 3 indoor and 4 outdoor — free with an NYC Parks recreation-center membership. Outdoor open play runs Mon/Wed/Fri 10 AM–1 PM in the spring-through-fall season; indoor play is seasonal, offered Mon/Tue/Thu. This is a genuinely different access model from either the paid LIC clubs or the free walk-on parks courts above: you need the membership, but once you have it, court access is included rather than billed per session.

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Needs-verification: seven more, one still under construction <a id="needs-verification"></a>

Seven additional Queens pickleball records are open in the dataset but not yet fully verified against a primary source. We're naming them here in the interest of completeness, with the caveats attached — treat these as leads to confirm before you make a trip, not as guaranteed courts.

• Gotham Pickleball LIC 2 (52-37 2nd St, Long Island City, NY 11101) — status is coming-soon, not yet open. This is Gotham Pickleball's second Long Island City location, a 26,000-sq-ft build-out with a reported 6 indoor + 2 outdoor courts, per local real-estate and neighborhood news coverage. Expected opening is fall 2026. Don't plan a trip yet — this one isn't open.
• Al Oerter Recreation Center Pickleball (131-40 Fowler Ave, Flushing, NY 11355) — the official NYC Parks facility page lists 3 indoor wood courts requiring an NYC Parks membership, but we found a direct source conflict: a separate official nycgovparks.org article on indoor sports lists pickleball at Roy Wilkins (confirmed above) and lists Al Oerter for jianzi, not pickleball. The dedicated schedule page for Al Oerter also returned an access error when we tried to fetch it directly. Until that's resolved by phone with the rec center, we're not calling this one confirmed.
• Farm Playground Pickleball Courts (195th–197th St between 69th–73rd Ave, Fresh Meadows, NY 11365) — an official NYC Parks pickleball facility page confirms the courts exist and lists dawn-to-dusk hours, but doesn't state a court count, and we haven't yet reached NYC Parks by phone to confirm one.
• Frank Principe Park Pickleball Courts (3 Queens Midtown Expy / Maurice Ave, Maspeth, NY 11378) — 6 outdoor asphalt courts, per a Queens Chronicle article specifically about the courts' design. The general nycgovparks.org park page confirms the park exists but has no dedicated pickleball sub-page, and hours aren't yet confirmed from a primary source.
• Louis C. Moser Park Pickleball Courts (25th Ave & 77th St, East Elmhurst, NY 11370) — 8 outdoor courts with permanent lines (bring your own portable net), per QNS local news reporting from April 2025. The park's existence is confirmed on nycgovparks.org, but there's no dedicated pickleball facility page there to independently confirm the court count, so this stays at needs-verification pending a phone confirmation.
• Cross Island YMCA Pickleball (238-10 Hillside Ave, Bellerose, NY 11426) — the official YMCA of Greater New York site confirms pickleball is offered here, with free weekday open play mentioned, but doesn't publish a court count or specific hours.
• Rockaway YMCA Pickleball (207 Beach 73rd Street, Arverne, NY 11692) — the official YMCA of Greater New York site lists pickleball among the branch's adult sports offerings, but court count, hours, and pricing aren't published there yet.

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What makes Queens pickleball different from Manhattan <a id="context"></a>

The contrast with our Manhattan guide is instructive. Manhattan's paid clubs compete almost entirely on amenities packed into a small footprint — golf simulators, co-working space, a smoothie bar — because square footage is scarce and every club is a bet that players will pay premium prices for it. Queens' Long Island City cluster runs a similar playbook (CityPickle's bar and restaurant, Gotham's app-only booking, Court 16's membership tiers) but with more room to work with, which is part of why Gotham is already building a second location a few blocks from its first.

Outside LIC, Queens looks nothing like Manhattan. There's no equivalent to Manhattan's Life Time gyms treating courts as a membership perk — instead there are two large hybrid tennis-and-pickleball centers (APTC and Commonpoint) that exist because Queens College and Alley Pond Park had land for dedicated multi-court buildouts. And the free NYC Parks network reaches further than Manhattan's: six confirmed locations from Astoria to the Rockaway peninsula, plus three more likely locations still pending confirmation, versus Manhattan's six clustered on a narrower island. If you're prioritizing free, walk-on pickleball, Queens' map is simply bigger and more spread out — worth checking which neighborhood you're headed to, since a short drive can put you in a completely different part of the borough.

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Quick-reference by area

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Sources

• Court 16 official site — court16.com/tennis-clubs/long-island-city-queens (address, hours, phone, pricing)
• CityPickle official site — city-pickle.com/locations/long-island-city (court count, hours)
• Gotham Pickleball official site — gotham-pickleball.com (court count, hours, pricing)
• Active Pickleball & Tennis Center at Queens College official site — aptcnyc.com (court count, hours, membership pricing)
• Commonpoint Tennis official site — commonpointtennis.org (address, phone, hours, pricing)
• NYC Parks official site — nycgovparks.org (Astoria Park, Crocheron Park, Alley Pond Park, Louis Pasteur Park, Francis Lewis Park, Rockaway Beach and Boardwalk, Roy Wilkins Recreation Center, Al Oerter Recreation Center, Farm Playground facility pages; NYC Parks press release for Alley Pond Park courts)
• QNS (Queens Neighborhood News/Queens local news) — reputable local Queens newspaper, cited for court counts and reopening confirmations at Astoria Park, Crocheron Park, Louis C. Moser Park, and Commonpoint's 2022 opening, plus the Gotham Pickleball LIC 2 expansion
• Queens Chronicle — reputable local Queens newspaper, cited for Frank Principe Park's court design and count
• YMCA of Greater New York official site — ymcanyc.org (Cross Island YMCA, Rockaway YMCA adult-sports program pages)
• newyorkyimby.com — cited alongside QNS for the Gotham Pickleball LIC 2 expansion (real-estate/development trade press reporting a specific project)
• Google Business Profiles / Google Maps listings for each venue (ratings and review counts as of each record's google_reviews_updated date)

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Engineer handoff

Template: city-guide (same as Manhattan, Washington DC, Austin, Chicago, Denver). Uses target_path and canonical_city_page from front matter.

Data note: 12 Queens pickleball records are verified; 7 more are open but needs-verification — Al Oerter Recreation Center has a documented source conflict (a separate official NYC Parks article assigns its indoor-sports slot to jianzi, not pickleball) and should get priority attention from the Verifier; Farm Playground, Frank Principe Park, and Louis C. Moser Park need court-count or hours confirmation from NYC Parks by phone; Cross Island YMCA and Rockaway YMCA need court count, hours, and pricing from the branches directly; Gotham Pickleball LIC 2 is status: coming-soon (expected fall 2026) and should stay flagged as not-yet-open until its record status changes. As the Verifier confirms these, this guide's needs-verification section and quick-reference table should be updated to match.

Link convention: All venue names link to /pickleball/united-states/new-york/queens/<id>/ on thecourtscout.com, matching courtPathAbs() in build.js (confirmed against data/states.json's NY slug new-york and slugify() producing queens). This is Queens' first published city guide, following Manhattan's.