The United States Tennis Association (USTA) sued New York City on Wednesday, accusing the Eric Adams administration of violating the terms of its long-term lease on the National Tennis Center in order to aid Mets owner Steve Cohen in his plans for a nearby Queens casino.
The USTA, which runs the US Open at its facilities in Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, says the city’s arrangement with Cohen’s Metropolitan Park casino and resort would contravene the “superiority clause” in the USTA’s long-standing lease agreement with the city.
That agreement stipulates that all third parties “are subject and subordinate in all respects to the rights of the USTA National Tennis Center” on the city-owned land around the National Tennis Center facilities.
