anyone know how much Eastern Athletic costs?

Eastern Athletic is $120 a month after you put down two months, plus possibly an initiation fee (but they have promotions).

Yeah. I went there for a short time... the member services management are assholes. I went there on a promotion type thing. (Pay the year in advance, then you have 3 months to decide if you like it.... and then pay only for the 3 months.) I decided I didn't like it and then spent 2+ weeks trying to get my promised refund. This involved certified letters and so on. (The certified letters are required by them! They won't accept the cancellation form in-person -- and they wouldn't send me a cancellation form... so I had to PICK IT UP in person, but I couldn't drop it off in person. Oh, and they were irrational dicks about the whole thing.)

The club itself is OK. The lockerooms are clean and nice. Though it's split into like 4 floors... so, if you want to do some cardio, go find a place to stretch and do sit ups, then go do weights, then maybe stretch.... you're wandering up and down stairs. It's sort of odd. I went to the Bklyn Heights branch once or twice, that was much better.

I also found it a little creepy because they don't seem to have many members at the this branch. So it's really quiet. Don't remember if they had many classes... didn't seem to. Oh, and they're hours are weird. They're in the Synagogue building, so it closed at like 4:00 on Fridays.[/i][/b]

there's a new, small gym that's pretty cheap near there: http://www.brooklynian.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=54916

one time a few years ago one of hte workers also bent the locks back on the locker i was using, so that unbeknownst to me, when i used my lock on it, it wasn't locking anything at all.

while i was working out, they just opened up my locker and stole some money.

i put up a sign the next time i went and before my workout was even over, the sign was ripped off.

but other than that, great facilities, no lines, great place to do a weights workout after running in the park.

not much eye candy, though.

arkachic wrote: that is really bizarre. I can imagine that they are assholes since they refuse to give ANY information about pricing unless its in person. .

Unless its' a well-known, franchise type gym, no gym will quote you over the phone.

I belong there- I like it, and I find the member services people to be fine. There's one girl there (blanking out on her name) that is downright super friendly. It's clean, empty (I like that in a gym), and I don't mind the multi-floor thing- makes it that much more private.

vaguely unrelated, but i've been gym shopping lately and body reserve on 5th and union seems good. $65/month, so... that's reasonable.
the guy working, antonio, was super friendly and helpful. it's a hike, but i think it's farthest i could ever see myself walking.

I went to check out EAC yesterday - Right now it's 120 per month with a $99 initiation fee. The year-long membership was about 1380 and would last for 14mos. very expensive, but very close.