New York Sports Clubs

Do NOT signup. They will never cancel your membership. After repeated attempts, I finally got through to the manager. Here is the exact email received on March 16^th from Peter Ward Fitness Service Manager
«Anthony I do apologize but I was able to cancel your member with TSI, you will no longer charge for your membership. your final payment will be a cancellation fee of 29.95 on 4÷1÷2016 and this will our final charge on your account.»
Of course what happens? on March 30^th I get charged $ 52 and then April 1^st I get charged $ 32.
This was the fourth time I was told my account would be cancelled. Other times I’ve called they told me they would look into it and call me back and never received a call back.
I travel a lot and sign up for gyms around the country. This has been my worst experience thus far. DO NOT GO. DO NOT SIGN UP!

ok gym nothing to complain about

This is a very small gym with not much equipment at all. I went when there was no one around on a Saturday morning and still had to be creative with the weights.
This basically is a glorified hotel gym.

First of all, a lot of the reviews for this NYSC are outdated and are not true when visiting the club now (2015). I work in NYC and live in NJ, so this gym is so convenient for my commute since it is connected to Newark Penn Station. I signed up for the $ 19.95 a month deal which is a great deal considering that the usual memberships cost between $ 65-​$ 75.
For the ladies who read this review– The women’s locker room was recently renovated and the lockers are brand new as well as the carpet. It is in deed very tidy and the cleaning crew does a good job at keeping it that way. I always see someone cleaning up after the clients.
As for the gym space, it is smaller than most gyms but it has a great number of equipment. It is 2 floors and has a dance/​spinning studio, so considering that it is small, it does offer a lot.
One thing that I LOVED is that as a new member, you get a free training session with one of the personal trainers. I highly recommend Woodell! He really pushed me and taught me a number of different exercises for my weight loss goals. Also, even though I didn’t purchase the personal training sessions, the trainers help you out for a good amount of time.
The only reason why I didn’t give it 5 stars is because the hours are not as long as other clubs and they are closed on Sundays. However, overall it is a great gym especially for the price.

I wish I could give it a ZERO star rating. Only reason I joined this place is coz it’s near to my work and I quit the gym after 1 month.

I was a member of this gym for almost 2 years from 2009 – 2011. So maybe things have changed. One of the most shadiest gyms I have ever encountered from the employees to the limited hours. Some of the worse personal trainers i have ever encountered. Nasty attitudes and just overall rude. Dont join this one under any circumstances!

Ok so as you can see i am not a person that writes many reviews on Unilocal because for the most part i am very easily satisfied with my services and i dont complain too much… so the fact that i took time out to write this review means i must be super pissed about this club… and i wanna diacourage ppl from joining this gym… i joined just like many others for their convenient location… so heres my experince… when i joined the gym i was given the usual membership contract… then later i was told about personal training session and i was told that it will be 69 $ per month for TWO sessions and when i asked them if i would i be charged a total of 69 $ per month i was told yes… i was not told that the 69 $ is in addition to your membership charges… so they have been charging me 69 $ for one training session per month (60 mins) in addition to my membership charges and when i asked them they said the membership fees and contract is seperate from their personal training contract… i was not given a copy of the personal training contract …i was basically told to just sign to authorize transaction so basically i was cheated into this contract and i was told 2 sessions per month whereas this contract which apparently now showed up 9 months later says 1 session… also when i asked my trainer to freeze my account i was not told about any forms to fill out regarding freezing the account and i was still being charged and when i came back from vacation and told them that my account was still being charged the trainer went to clarify 2 weeks ago and told me its taken care of and when i called today i was told there was no such evidence on their system… so basically they trick and lie to their customers into signing contracts and they give u a page long contract when u sign up but when u call them a 4 page contract with all sorts of rules and regulations shows up in ur inbox and they r not at all sympathetic and they question your truthfulness… and i am not the first person who they have trapped this way… many Kaplan students get trapped every year and because mostly international students attend Kaplan who are usually unaware of these contracts and gym systems get tricked and taken advantage of and they absolutely have no understanding that as students studying abroad we come with a limited budget… i will be posting this on their website as well as the website for Kaplan students so students are aware of these schemes… i would discourage anyone and everyone from ever being sucked into this gyms contract signing… and you guys can also read my friends incident of having her engagement ring stolen from one of the managers office… now its up to you what you make of that… i cannot wait till my contract with these thieves is over… believe me i would rather run around the block than ever pay for this crap

n friday afternoon 2÷28÷2014 around 4:30pm i went to the Gym to Workout, for the first time i forgot to bring my Padlock, and one of the managers told me to put my book bag which had my diamond engagement ring into a safe pocket closed, into her office to be safe. After 1 hour i went to get my bookbag, i didnt open it until i got home. And when i went to look for ring it wasnt there.
Today i went to talked with the General Manager 3÷3÷2014 to tell him what happened and he told me theres nothing they cant do because theres no camera around there. If i go to your Club which is one of the most named and exclusive in all the country is because i can trust that you will look forward for my interest and for my safety, everybody knows me in that Club and everybody KNOWED that i had that ring.

I live within walking distance of this club in Newark and never tried this location. I usually drive to Clifton or Livingston. I was initially impressed with the locker room and layout. I went for a yoga class and was surprised that there was not a separate mind/​body studio like other locations. Also, there were guys using the weight outside is the studio and they kept dropping then on the floor. Kind of annoying when you are doing yoga.
After class I decided to do cardio. The elliptical machines were very loud, Like something was wrong. I then went on to try the two stair master machines and the pedals seemed loose. The chains on both machines were rusted. Tried one of the bikes and it was ok. I was disappointed at the condition of the machines.
The music was too loud. Had to blast my music to drown it out.
The location is convenient but not impressed. I will keep driving to Clifton and Livingston. They don’t have rusty machines!

It’s a shame that such a great gym has unprepared and rude staff scaring away people who walked in ready to sign up. There are other gyms opening up everywhere and your arrogance will keep them in business. The spinning teacher is great but the manager should get some anger management classes. Not signing up while that individual works there. It’s really a pity that he was made manager (or so he identified himself) when he is probably the dumbest and rudest person in Newark.

Absolutely the worst gym I have ever been to. Firstly the membership people will lie about the contracts, then if you freeze your membership they will simply lift it randomly and refuse to refund anything. Secondly, the equipment is crap, not even a squat rack and a bunch of retarded trainers giving erroneous and often dangerous advice to fat retards dumb enough to pay for it. Avoid this place at all costs. I wish i had read the reviews here before joining.

Since becoming a member of NYSC in early 2010 I have been to quite a bunch of them throughout Manhattan and a few in New Jersey. Out of all of them this is one of, if not the worst one.
It is quite obvious that the only reason there are any paying customers is because it is located in a corporate clusterf*ck.
Before I start listing why this place is atrocious, know that it really doesn’t take much for me to be pleased with a gym. I’m easy. This place still fails.
In no particular order:
1. The music:
Oh lord, the music. Everytime I’ve been here for the past 10 months or so they have played the SAME, terrible music. Literally everytime, this is not an exaggeration. Please, for the love of god, change the music station around from time to time. Or bring in an ipod. Do something, please.
Aside from the music being terrible they also play it way too loud. Thus if one wants to escape the cacophany of whatever terrible horseshit is in the top 40, you cannot. The music is loud enough (especially in the free weights area) that simply putting on headphones will not drown out the miserable droning flooding the place. I have asked an employee to turn it down multiple times with no results.
Most of the time I find myself hurrying through my workout so I can leave the gym and not hear the music anymore.
2. The showers/​locker room:
The mens locker room is revolting. I honestly feel less clean after showering here than before. It’s small and for some reason you cannot choose your locker which drives me crazy.
It smells like mildew and stale farts. Or like wet shitted in underwear. I really don’t know how to describe the smell but it is rancid.
The actual showers are gnarly. There is a nice man who cleans them from time to time but the only thing that really needs to be done is to build new ones.
Also, for some reason, they don’t have towels IN the locker room. Mind boggling.
Aside from these two major factors the rest of the facility falls short for a this reason: the place is too small. The ‘class’ section (why they even bothered building this into this small structure is beyond me) is right on top of the free weights area so those wanting to work out there get pelted by the atrocious music from the stereo system and the dischord from the spinning classes.
There was more I wanted to say but I’ve probably lost everyone by now.
Ending on a positive note, the staff is quite pleasant.
The ONLY reason why I still go here is because I work in the building and it is incredibly convenient. Recently, I find myself thinking of just waiting to get back to NYC to lift, however.

I really love this gym. I haven’t had issues that some of the other reviewers have had in terms of membership fees and what not. The gym itself is clean, the machines work, the tv screens in all the cardio is cool, it’s never crowded, the classes are great and the staff are friendly. The lockers are a strange shape which is annoying and the limited hours — early closing and not really open on the weekend is a pain but I knew these hours before signing up — it didn’t suddenly come as a surprise.
It’s a good gym, I wouldn’t hesitate to recommending it :)

Terrible! They lied about my «no commit» contract and then didn’t cancel my membership when I requested. i’m out over $ 700 and their answer is that i should have saved the membership cancellation form.
trust me, this place is not trustworthy.

The majority of the staff is pleasant. The machines are clean and are conveniently available. My main drawback was how the membership fee inched its way higher and higher. Scant gym hours, in the long run, was not worth my membership and frequent headaches from being handed from one person to the next in order to glean information regarding increases to my membership fee which I did not consent to. Knock yourself out…

NYSC never had a great reputation to begin with, but the one at Newark takes the cake. Unfortunately for some of us, its the closest one to work and our options in the ‘hood are limited.
The crowd is a mix of office workers and sketchy locals — lots of fun. How sketchy? People steal weight pins from the machines! At times, I wonder whether this NYSC has more personal trainers than customers. It certainly feels like the personal trainers are on the winning end, when they harass you daily to sign up for training packages to meet their quota. The equipment itself isn’t that bad, but nothing to write home about too. It tends to be a lot more out-​dated than the machines and the NYSC in the city or suburbs… and if a machine breaks, don’t expect them to rush to fix it anytime soon.
The locker room is pitiful. They always tend to stick everyone into the same corner, and constant plumbing issues — just nasty. I could buy better towels at the dollar store. The only thing I do like is that I don’t have to bring my own padlock — the downside being that half the locks are worn out/​broken.
So its a crappy gym and as long as I’ve been a member, they haven’t really attempted to improve on that. Maybe they assume their office/​local clientele doesn’t have a better option around — but they certainly hold some stupid event every other day to try and attract new customers.

I swear on yo momma’s brisket that our Men’s locker room is connected to the Women’s locker room — unfortunately not in the pervy way that a guy like me would otherwise fantasize about. Instead, it’s the plumbing. All the other shower stalls appear to be empty, so why the heck is the temperature of my shower fluctuating?!
Convenient location to work, decent class instructors, crappy facility (particularly the lockers/​showers). Go in, burn some calories, get out, have a philly cheese steak. OK fiiine, a salad — whatever.
~If you’ve been a long-​time member before, be sure they hook you up with 15% off and do away any additional fees.

This is probably by far the worst of all the New York Sports Clubs I’ve been to, and that’s quite a few that I’ve made my way to. This one is deceptively smaller than it actually looks, it isn’t that clean and the crowd it sketchy. The lockers are old-​school, where you can’t use your own locks, and are really narrow. The showers are pretty large though, and offer more privacy than usual. But as Sean S. said, though not too crowded, it still lacks a proper equipment and things are definitely old and not properly maintained.

It’s clean.
It’s bright.
It’s small.
It does have a certain pool of cute looking, mostly Spanish/​Portuguese descended guys there that make working out easy on the eyes.
That said, there isn’t enough equipment for a serious gym goer. I went here thinking it’d be better than my hotel. For the volume of options it was but it was also $ 15to buy a guest pass from my hotel. However if you want to go in the morning and come back in the evening you can forget about it. The guest pass only gets you in once a day so if you are there on West Coast time and a 8 oclock run seems like 5 am and it feels better to come back at 8 pm to do your weights because that feels like 5 pm, you can just forget that.