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December 2023 by Andrew C.
My goal is to visit as many Blink gyms in NYC. Location: Upstairs. Gym occupies two floors. Elevator: yes Convenience: in the financial district. Close to the Fulton St station 4, 5, A, C, 2, 3. You could walk from R City Hall and 6 Brooklyn Bridge. Gym Size: Two floors. Lower floor is smaller with a stretch area. Upper floor is larger with a room dedicated to free weights. Cardio equipment is on both floors. Locker Room Size (Men's): average for the size of gym. Equipment (outside of the basics mentioned below): battle ropes, plyo boxes, No kettlebells above 50 lbs, no TRX Crowdedness: Target audience seems to be the working crowd especially during the lunch time hours. Also seems to be a favorite of Pace students. Cleanliness: clean enough. Staff Friendliness: Friendly enough. Hours: 7 days/wk. On par with other NYC Blinks but note early close 5pm on weekends. Also weeknights closing time is 10pm. Overall: an ok Blink with an odd 2-floor layout. Doesn't seem to get overly crowded (maybe lunchtime). Dedicated stretch area a plus. Not my favorite Blink but fills the need if you are in the area. *Unless noted, assume all Blink gyms have locker rooms, water fountain, stretch area, dumbbells, kettlebells (up to 50lbs), smith machines, weight machines, cardio equipment (Rower, treadmills, ellipticals, bikes, stairclimber), showers, wipes, Towel machine (pay separate charge). Assume you can scan in via App or Apple Wallet/Watch **Note: I am a Blink user with entry possibility of all their NYC area gyms via an Add-on to my Classpass membership. (I did not want to deal with Blink corporate in case I needed to cancel and wanted to avoid a startup fee or annual charge). I do not take showers at the gym and tend to go off-peak hours.
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November 2023 by Nancy A.
The gym is usually empty when I go so all the fitness gear is available. I usually use the treadmill and bike and there are many of them for you to use if you don't want to stick next to people. I usually go to the treadmill far away from people so there's more privacy. The treadmills come with a cup holder and a phone holder for you to use. Lockers are plenty for you to grab one. Some of them are dirty but they are still manageable. Just remember to bring a lock with you or you can pay a lock at $5.00 there. Showers here are horrible but bearable. I once found a pubic hair in the shower head and it was disgusting. Also, the shower heads contain a dry black crust, which I don't know what it is.
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October 2023 by Jonathan Cole
So I used to work out at this location because it was close to my job to be honest never worked out at this location in the afternoon or evening only mid-morning usually pretty empty good equipment only have one problem not to speak Niger negatively about the facility one day there was a personal trainer there who kind of had an attitude with went to use the pull up assist hogging it doing a circuit set with his client wanted to work out between us sets and he gave me an attitude didn't really look in good shape or new like he look like he knew what he was doing watch them train a client a day before client was on a Hammer strength chest press and he attacked some resistance bands to the back of he was doing Rose why his client was doing to me not professional maybe he was jealous that I was in better shape than I've been working out for 20-plus years usually a personal trainer is supposed to spot someone to make sure they're breathing right and using the right not laying the client train on their own while they're doing their own never mind the fact why he was doing doing Rose he fell off the ????????
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September 2023 by Bryson McEachin
Decided to try this gym since it was close to my job, but after just one day I’m really disappointed. This gym sucks in all honesty. There’s only one bench rack and just two squat racks. Meanwhile there are two floors full of rows of treadmills and ellipticals…far too many when you have just THREE racks in the entire gym. Simply makes no sense.In addition to this, the employees are extremely unhelpful. I requested assistance with my account, but was told by the staff that they were unable to help and that I would have to reach out to Member services via email. They then gave me an email for Member Services that turned out to be fake and didn’t exist. Instead, I had to go to a completely different location to get help. At that different location, I explained the situation with my account and the staff there was able to help me and resolve the issue within a matter of 2 minutes (shout out to the 125th street Blink location in Harlem, they’re great!).All in all, avoid this Blink location at all costs. It’s a bad location that lacks equipment, has unhelpful staff, and causes nothing but headaches.
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August 2023 by Joseph R.
This is a low budget organization interested in only one thing--- your money. They try to make it literally impossible to cancel. I sent them an email trying to cancel and they say use the website--- why isn't my email enough? You've obviously been notified if you are responding to my email. When I try to cancel on the website, I am told I must provide a reason for cancelling that is satisfactory to them. I have completed my 12 month commitment and moving away but they want "proof" that I am moving away. All in the hope if eeking one more month's payment out of me. It must be deeply shameful to work at a place like this. So, tip of the day: do not, do not, DO NOT do business with these pathetic slimeballs. And to have the audacity to say that they strive to be "transparent"---- really appalling. Transparently greedy and unwilling to invest in their own facility.
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August 2023 by Philly J.
Blink is awful and this location is especially awful. Front desk folks do literally nothing except chat with each other and play on phones, equipment is broken and what isn't is taken up by machine hogs who sit on equipment and play with their phones. Managment openly lied about fixing the exercise bikes--- total trash. I am trying to cancel and they want me to establish proof of moving out of the area. I am moving out of the area but I just want to cancel and get away from you! They do everything they can to hold onto automatic debit--- even if they just get 1 more month of payment, it's worth it to them. Go elsewhere even if it costs more.
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July 2023 by Dominique Jackson
I have a blue membership. This membership is supposed to cover all 5 boroughs. I've been to the Nassau location twice and yesterday I was told I was unable to work out there because my membership does not cover " Premiere" locations between 54th street in Manhattan to the Finical District. The equipment is not even updated in this location and this is truly a let down because I work right in the area. Closing off the gyms in this specific area says a lot about the people they are trying to keep out. There are no additional amenities to justify keeping Blue Members out of these facilities. I signed up for this membership because I was told I'd have access in all 5 boroughs at the location I signed up at just to find out this isn't true. My membership has now been cancelled .
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July 2023 by Dominique J.
I have a blue membership. This membership is supposed to cover all 5 boroughs. I've been to the Nassau location twice and yesterday I was told I was unable to work out there because my membership does not cover " Premiere" locations between 54th street in Manhattan to the Finical District. The equipment is not even updated in this location and this is truly a let down because I work right in the area. Closing off the gyms in this specific area says a lot about the people they are trying to keep out. There are no additional amenities to justify keeping Blue Members out of these facilities. I signed up for this membership because I was told I'd have access in all 5 boroughs at the location I signed up at just to find out this isn't true. My membership has now been cancelled .
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July 2023 by Sandy Liao
The service under the new management is horrible! I’ve been coming to this location since March 2022, never had any issues. I almost never needed service from the staffs anyways. Only once in a blue moon (approximately 3 times in a year) when I forgot to bring my personal bath towel, the previous lady manager would just lend a clean towel for me to use with no fuss. Today happened to be one of the blue moon, the staff was very rude and said the current manager wouldn’t allow it and that the towels are only for customers who has towel services. How inconvenient that is! Would it even make sense to sign up for the towel service for $13 a month if the customers only forgot to bring their own towel like a few times in a year?? I think the policies should be made a bit more flexible than that.
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July 2023 by Amanda Medrano
This gym is conveniently close to my apartment. Clean, and the staff are all really nice! However, I do not get a good workout in most days because of how packed this gym gets. Even in the mornings at 6am I usually can’t lift any weights because of other members. I wish there were more squat racks. Also, I wish this location stayed open later during the week and especially on the weekends. 5pm closing is a little early for the weekends.
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July 2023 by Azriel C
This is one of those gyms where a bunch of people with nothing better to do come to hang out and take hours to get off of machines they're barely using in the first place. Expect long waits on any bench at any given time, expect barbells to be all over the gym, expect a group of friends to text and chat on the benches, don't expect to get any work done in a timely manner though
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July 2023 by Chin T.
Affordable price for gym however there's no pool. Everyone here is super friendly and open during major holiday but be aware of hour changes. Would highly recommend if you are here for the gym equipment and not looking for the added amenities like the pool.
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June 2023 by Will A.
Signed up for blink at this location after having a positive experience in the Williamsburg location. About a month and a half goes by and I am forced to move due to personal reasons. I go to cancel my membership at the bed stuy location and found out they had charged me to a year deal which I specifically said I didn't want specially and I was told I didn't get. The employee who was helping me close the account even said they intentionally screwed me over and signed me up for a max deal. Which happened without my permission. DO NOT GO HERE IF YOU DONT WANT TO BE SCAMMED. I will never be returning to blink ever again
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June 2023 by Britney Spears
1. The HOURS are the worst. I mean closing at 10 pm and 5 pm on the weekends. This is nyc. At least stay open till 11 pm and 7 pm like other blinks. 2. They need more squat machine , bench press machine. It lacks equipment but they donot care. 3. Staff is hit and miss.
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May 2023 by lenlee hosang
All blink staff are awesome but all blinks still need an etiquette course because some members still don't wipe down machines, hog equipment and just be selfish