A Google User
May 9, 2018 23:37
Every year the cost of membership goes up because of the "costs of maintenance" in addition to charging a yearly maintenance fee. I would happily swallow that if the location showed any level of improvement in maintenance. Not only are at minimum 20% of the machines broken at any given time, the ones that do work are worn down, show severe signs of age and distress, or are operable but have broken features. They have out of order type signs on machines and you will literally see dust on the paper sign because it has been so long since it has been out of order.
This is not the only major concern. I typically work out early in the morning, where the club is as clean as it will be, which isn't clean. I'm not just talking about weights being out of order and misplaced all throughout the gym (they're literally are littered throughout the gym, you can do some cardio looking for a matching pair of dumbbells). A few weekends ago I came in the middle of the day and it was disgustingly unhealthy. I walked in and felt the humidity from the sweat. This is particularly apparent on the second floor. Where is the air-conditioning and ventilation? This is a fairly new building, I work in the architecture design industry and know this shouldn't be a problem.
Blink offers significantly better prices and much better quality. Unfortunately this location is just too convenient to pass up. As soon as something else comes within 20 blocks of my apartment, I'm out of the NYSC broken machine and grungy club funk.