Some dog owners shell out as much as $2,200 a year so their furry friends can run free in what may be New York City’s strangest private club, which features bone- and paw-shaped swimming pools
What may be New York City’s strangest private club lies on an odd-angled lot wedged between Bus Ramp 99 from the Port Authority Bus Terminal and a vehicular entrance to the Lincoln Tunnel in Manhattan. Here, members relax under a pergola with hanging baskets of petunias, sipping filtered water and gnawing tennis balls. Sometimes they wrestle in the gravel.
“It’s a place to get away, just a fun little place,” says longtime member and volunteer Tim Ousey, visiting on a recent morning with his 12-year-old beagles, Betty and Judy., founded in 1994, as legend has it, by an eponymous German shepherd from Pasadena, Calif. The members-only mini park reopened last month following a repair job on the bus-ramp railing, and canines in the surrounding Hell’s Kitchen neighborhood couldn’t be happier.
Like most membership runs, Astro’s admits only dogs who have been vaccinated, licensed and whose owners agree to strict rules: If two dogs fight, both leave. Dues, which cover park maintenance, insurance and supplies, are $40 a year. Members get a key for 24/7 access. It’s like a Gramercy Park for dogs, with a lot more buses whizzing by.
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