Mobile US Open Experience Coming to Hudson Yards – Tennis Now

By Richard Pagliaro | Tuesday, August 11, 2026
Photograph credit score: US Open/USTA

New Yorkers can style the US Open totally free subsequent week.

And it’ll soften in your mouth.

The USTA immediately introduced a collection of promotional actions geared toward bringing the 2026 US Open to New Yorkers throughout all 5 boroughs.

Given scorching summer time situations, New Yorkers needs to be happy to see the US Open Ice Cream truck roll into public park courts subsequent week meting out free ice cream in addition to different US Open surprises freed from cost.

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The ice cream truck will go to public park tennis courts in every of the 5 boroughs August 17-21 and serve up chocolate and vanilla soft-serve, ice pops and different surprises. The total schedule is under:

US Open Free Ice Cream Truck Schedule

Monday, August 17
NYJTL Cary Leeds Middle
Crotona Park, Bronx
12-4 p.m.

Tuesday, August 18
Riverside Park Tennis Courts
Higher West Aspect, Manhattan
1-6 p.m.

Wednesday, August 19
McCarren Park Tennis Courts
Williamsburg, Brooklyn
1-6 p.m.

Thursday, August 20
Silver Lake Tennis Courts
Silver Lake Park, Staten Island
1-6 p.m.

Friday, August 21
Astoria Park Tennis Courts
Astoria, Queens
3-6 p.m.

The US Open Expertise at Hudson Yards begins on Sunday, August thirtieth, the identical day US Open main-draw play begins at Flushing Meadows and can deliver the sport on to followers.

Hudson Yards will host a FREE, weeklong public activation designed to provide followers the chance to expertise the power of the US Open in opposition to the backdrop of one in all New York Metropolis’s most iconic public areas, Hudson Yards.

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“Followers of all ages can do the whole lot from play Purple Ball tennis on two 40-foot sport courts, play tennis-themed video video games in titles like Fortnite and Roblox, expertise what it’s wish to stroll out of the participant tunnel into Arthur Ashe Stadium,” the USTA stated in a press release. “Sip on the Gray Goose Honey Deuce cocktail, store official merch and watch ESPN’s protection of the US Open on the massive display screen.”

Open each day from 11 a.m. to eight p.m., the US Open Expertise at Hudson Yards affords a wide range of actions together with:

• Open Purple-Ball Tennis Courts, the place guests can choose up a racquet and expertise the advantages of taking part in the world’s healthiest sport, together with by means of specifically curated programming, provided all through the week on two, 40-foot-by-20-foot sport courts, with gear supplied by Wilson.
• Benefit Enviornment, the US Open’s premier gaming vacation spot, the place followers of all ages can put themselves on the final intersection of world-class tennis and interactive digital gaming. Followers can step straight into the motion with unique, tennis-themed gameplay throughout Roblox, Fortnite, Tennis Conflict, and TIEBREAK – Grand Slam Version.
• Participant Tunnel and Champions’ Photograph Expertise, recreating the long-lasting entrance gamers make earlier than strolling out to 1000’s of followers inside Arthur Ashe Stadium, after which the last word alternative for followers to strike a pose as in the event that they’ve simply been topped US Open champion.
• Reside US Open Theme Artwork Creation, that includes 2026 US Open theme artist Eugenia Mello, who will paint a artistic rendition of the theme artwork throughout the first two days of the occasion.
• Official US Open Merchandise Retailer, that includes a curated choice of genuine match merchandise sometimes solely accessible on-site on the US Open. Particular collectible match-used US Open tennis balls will likely be given away for FREE to a choose variety of the primary followers who buy merchandise every day.
• The Honey Deuce® Expertise, the place Dickinson’s Farm Stand at Hudson Yards will serve the long-lasting Gray Goose® Honey Deuce®, the US Open’s signature cocktail.
• Interactive Associate Experiences from official US Open companions, together with product sampling of Heineken 0.0, La Roche-Posay sunscreen and Lavazza espresso, health activation with Peloton and Polo Ralph Lauren’s anamorphic tennis-ball sculpture, a suspended set up of two,000 tennis balls creating the long-lasting emblem of the model.
• Sundown Classes, that includes a marquee lineup of official US Open DJs, spinning dwell every night from 5-8 p.m.