The Sports Club/LA -- New York Upper East Side
New York, NY 10021-8765
Phone: (212) 355-5100
- Cross Street:
- Between 1st Avenue and 2nd Avenue
- Directions:
- 4, 5, 6 at 59th St; N, R, W at Lexington Ave and 59th St
- Hours:
- Mon-Fri 5am-11pm , Sat-Sun 7am-9pm
Editorial Review for The Sports Club/LA -- New York Upper East Side – by Lynn Suhrie
In Short
A healthier world unto itself, this gargantuan hotel-styled gym wipes away nearly every excuse to stay home. It boasts two full gyms, squash courts, a cavernous cardio and weightlifting area, a cycling studio and--to top it all off--a climbing wall. Classes, from Pilates to "Street Kata" kickboxing kick-off in the early morning and run into night. Hungry yet? The SixtyOne Cafe and Bar serves breakfast, lunch and dinner.
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Insider Tips
Look GoodSplash Spa offers massages, facials, waxing and a variety of other therapeutic treatments.
When to GoIn the summer you can luxuriate on the gym's urban oasis roof deck.
The ExtrasAn Executive Membership grants you access to all other Sports Club/LA facilities (like the one in Rockefeller Center), an exclusive locker room, a personal locker, laundry service, two Splash services, seven training sessions and more.
User Reviews for The Sports Club/LA -- New York Upper East Side
03/07/2008 Posted by yarmalegna
I was a loyal member to NYSC for 7 years. In that time, I had 2 weird billing issues. The first was partially my fault, but since their billing/customer service department and their clubs do not communicate very well, it was really hard to resolve it. It literally took 5 visits to the club. Then my last and final billing issue, was when I froze my account to take karate lessons, a manager from one of the clubs froze it, and told me just to contact the club when I wanted unfreeze the account. But then the following month I noticed I was billed for the entire membership fee - no more freeze. I contacted the club immediately and asked to be reimbursed and put back on a freeze, they said I couldn't get reimbursed without paperwork (which the manager didn't even mention - she just made the changes on the computer while I was in the club). They offered a credit to my account, which did me little good because I wanted to cancel my membership completely. They told me the only way I could get reimbursed is if the manager could contest to the fact that I did want to freeze my account longer than 1 month. They contacted the manager, but she was no longer with the company (1 short month after the transaction) I filed a complaint since I thought it was unfair for them to not consider my circumstance, or the fact that their employee who was no longer with them might have made a mistake (since i contacted them the same day they charged my account). i also thought that if my complaint went to higher management, maybe they would help me resolve the situation - wrong!!! They were entirely stand-off-ish in their reply and did nothing to help my situation. Their reply was just an edited version of what happened that was probably in their computer system. No sympathy what-so-ever for my situation. Plus their machines were always broken or about to break, TV's too. Classes were actually pretty good, though, in NYC...did that for years.
01/28/2008 Posted by AES129
I have been a member for about five months now and the facilities are excellent. Locker rooms are great. The personal trainer that worked with me gave me the best workout I have ever had too. I am the type of person that really doesn't enjoy working out and this gym in particular has two nice basketball courts. Unfortunately, they aren't available when I want to use them on the weekends. The club is actively looking to rent this floor out for children's parties. I have no problem with them doing that but this was never explained to me when joining. I was asked to leave the gym three times because they also don't post when the gym is rented either only on the floor itself not on their website. Very disappointing, the reason I joined was because of the breadth of services didn't realize they were optional.
Pros: Great facilities, a lot of equipment
Cons: Facilities are not available all the time
