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Readers Respond: What's the best NYC gym?

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From the article: Best New York City Gyms
Do you love your gym or hate it? Bad gyms offer broken equipment, dirty locker rooms, and surly staff. Good gyms are clean, bright, roomy, and full of new equipment and hot people. Of course, this is New York, so you can't always get what you want without spending a fortune. What's the best NYC gym for the money? Share your opinion

New York Sports Club upper east side

some of the personal trainers at this branch are very unprofessional and the administration are ripoff artists
—Guest Rick

Customer

Peak Performance Sport & Fitness Center is the greatest facility that I have ever seen. Great trainers and friendly personal.
—Guest Joe Dpwdell

MPHC!!

It's a little out of the way, but this gym has everything you would need in a normal gym plus a rock climbing gym, pool, tennis courts, pilates machine and massage! I've never used the latter 3 (not included in the dues), but have nothing to complain about the others. The climbing gym is AWESOME - great staff, and the classes I've gone to are pretty good too. If only the gym was a little bigger...but what more can you ask for in NYC?
—Guest Hells Kitchen

Manhattan Locksmith

That is Such a perfect place, awesome spa too!! You gonna try
—Guest locksmith manhattan

Great gym in Murray Hill

If you're in the area you should try Club H its a great gym, spacious, clean and has all new equipment. The instructors and classes are great too and they have a great deal going on now with buywithme where $49 gets you a one month membership and an hour session with a personal trainer. If you're looking for a new gym check this place out. Here's the link to the deal: http://bit.ly/aidqlA. Hope you try it!
—Guest Ellie

Synergy - Stay Away - Horrible Gym

Signed up for a trial 30 day membership, went exactly once. Now moving away from the neighborhood, they won't give me a refund without sending a certified letter to the address of the club I signed up in. Absolutely horrific experience.
—Guest murrayhill

Warning: Citi Fitness....stay away

Absolutely horrible experience.Dirt cheap, but the machines mostly dont work, half the cardio is broken in some way or another, TV didn't work for three months, they lie to you about hidden fees and then charge you for them. The management never responds to emails (even multiple ones over several days). All in all a horrible experience. Stay away and do yourself a favor. Also, spread the word and tell your friends to stay away.
—Guest Mat

Best Gym in NYC-24 Hour Fitness

Derek Jeter's 24 Hour Fitness is the best. They have everything you would need to work out. Best Cardio & Weight machines, they even have a small swimming pool, a room for classes and the best spinning class. Pete Mo is the best. Definitely check it out.
—Guest Carmen A.

Woman

CLAY, all the way!! Such a perfect place, awesome spa too!!
—Guest Amber

Not NYSC

I go to New York Sports and it's adequate (also I get a discount from my work). I have looked at other gyms that were nicer but they were also super expensive.
—Guest lulu

Definitely Chelsea Piers

Chelsea Piers has the best gym in the city without a doubt. Love that gym.
—Guest Aaron T.

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