Instant five stars!…read more Just got home from my first visit. What a great place! Nice facility, friendly staff, great teacher. I almost felt like I was at a Manhattan studio, except we weren't crammed into the room like sardines. Major plus! Can't wait to go back.

I actually started coming here in january of 2011 and i LOVE I, I have gone to many different…read moreplaces to work out througout the years and iIve found the one place that keeps me coming back. I love all the staff they are all very friendly and willing to help you with anything that you may need. They are all educated and trained in what they teach and i feel that to be very important. Its great that they offer a variety of classes from yoga to bootcamp and everything in between. I myself do the kickboxing and bootcamp 4 days a week with an occasionaly yoga class when i have time and i have seen amazing results. Leon is a great trainer and he pushes you to do your best because he wants results!! Ambria's Zogalaties class makes u sweat as well and is great for toning. I have referred many people here because i truly believe its an amazing place to work out and to make friends. its only 10 dollars a class or 100 for the month so you really cant go wrong, i would recommend this place to everyone!!

Half the place continues to be under construction, including the pool, for going on 5 years.read more

The NYC Parks Department maintains a bunch of recreation centers in the city that are often refered…read moreto as City Gyms. These include Community Centers, Field Houses, and Nature Centers and offer services such as indoor pools, weight rooms, basketball courts, dance studios, boxing rings, art studios, game rooms and libraries. The Hansborough center is mostly a gym/sport destination (though they are opening a computer room soon). I go here to work out - lifting weights, cardio on the machines, walking on the track, and sometimes swimming. They have a few classes and offer some after school stuff for kids. I don't know how crowded this place gets on evenings and weekends since I come in the middle of the day, but it seems well-used and therefore well kept. Plus, it's in a historic part of Harlem. The best thing is the price. $50/year for most centers, $75/year for ones with a pool. If you get a membership to one, you can visit ANY rec center in the system in any of the 5 boroughs. If you're looking for a place to work out and have basic needs, then a City Gym is a good choice. This one in particular if you live uptown. They're not all this nice, and the one in Chelsea is rumored to be even nicer. I'd do some investigating to see if the center near you is a place you'd spend time. If you come here, don't be fooled by the 134th street address. What you want to do is walk east along 135th (if you're coming from the B/C or 2/3 stations) until you come to Lennox Terrace apartment complex (just east of Malcolm X Blvd./Lennox Ave.). You'll see a little street that runs behind the building along the parking lot. Turn in there. The Rec center is on the left on a tiny strip of street labeled, helpfully, 134th. Don't confuse it with the Joseph Kennedy rec center at the end of the street.

Just a shout out to the Riverdale Y and their group swimming lessons. I was lifeguard and swimming…read moreinstructor for many years in my teens and early 20's. I was excited to teach my kids to swim. That only went so far, they were not as excited to learn from mom, lol. The group lessons at the Riverdale Y were great. They worked with them on their comfort level, the instructors were very patient and it did the trick pretty quickly. I highly recommend ‍ There are many programs here at the Y that are great! The pool for lap or recreational swim, the gym and classes for working out, the after school programs, Camp Twelve Trails, music lessons, theatre, other youth and senior programs, and so much more. This is really a great Y. The staff is also very friendly and helpful

We love the Y! We have done so many things here including afterschool, which was great. A lot or…read moreactivities for kids to pick from and the staff is fantastic. We also did the swim team (great coach) and theater as well. Theater for kids is fun and they do adult shows here as well. The place is run by some of the nicest people. And they do early voting in this location, which is super convenient. Lately, we began piano lessons and hoping the kiddo enjoys those. Overall, we appreciate all the things offered by the Y!

We don't recommend this center. We had to pay over $2,000 for our children with disabilities to get…read more30 minutes a week of for private lessons. Out of the 8 weeks, they would tell us at last minute that our child would not have classes because instructors took the day off. They wouldn't even refund or give us the day for a future make up class. Interesting enough, free classes are given to other families. Jerome, Bronx New Settlement Community Center.

This community center offers a wide range of activities such as karate, jiu jitsu, ballet, swimming…read moreand other classes and activities. the ball room is very nice and refined large space for yoga, ballet, and other classes such as karate and jiu jitsu. The swimming pool is very large and has plenty of lifeguards however the locker room/bathroom situations is quite a big problem mainly in the showers since there is little to no hot water some of the time also there are broken movable shower heads in both family locker rooms and the floor itself looks festered with disease it left a bad taste in my mouth. Besides that issue the community center has good heating and air conditioning and very friendly staff and good wifi as well.

Couldn't have been more happier with my decision to sign my son up to karate. But not just…read moreanywhere, here specifically. Who would've thought that a child of then 5 would have such a rough year for their first real school experience with bullying. My son did, and it was really affecting his behavior in school and then eventually at home. I knew that he needed a positive place to release the stress a young 5 year old can feel. Within 3 months I've noticed such a big change in his behavior, he was walking around with a smile and less aggravated to attend school. He is in his 8th month this December and in first grade now and I no longer pick up an angry child from school. He is more confident, self assured and although it has gotten tougher for him he has stuck it through and made some friends he can hopefully build long lasting relationships with. What makes this place great besides the beautiful space and well kept dojo and bathrooms are the Senseis. Both Sensei Luis and Sensei Rahul are amazing with the kids. Disciple, structure and respect will be learned here and they demand it. They are serious and tough on the young ones, pushing them to their full potential. And on the other hand they are very playful and loving and give the kids a break with occasional games when they are deserving. The children really show interest to be here, they are ready in line and excited. I have seen some amazing students that they have molded in this dojo and only hope that Noel will also follow their footsteps. Glad to be apart of the BX Martial Arts family. I truly am grateful for my sons Senseis and have an immense amount of respect and love for what they do for our children. Keep it up!

I'm gonna be honest, I love the classes, and I love the training. But the toxic masculinity was…read morethrough the roof. Mind you, some of the coaches are absolute sweethearts and I hate to bundle the good with the bad, but unfortunately this Was my experience. They threw my sneakers in the garbage, another time they hid my gloves and water bottle and did not return it until a month later. I tried not to jump to conclusions, and figured I just miss placed some of my items but after they had returned it to me I was very sure one or two of the instructors had taken my items. A lot of hostility and intimidation was present for absolutely no reason. Wasn't sure if I unintentionally stepped on someones toes. It came to the point were I had to choose to forfeit the lessons as not to have to deal with this type of behavior anymore after a recent injury . Signed up for Kyokushin classes in the city and left this nonsense behind. Nothing more then bullies with a belt. Beware.

My child took classes for a few months and we were satisfied. A small pool with small class sizes,…read moreseemed to be the perfect fit for my little swimmer. Great communication and friendly staff. My one gripe was the curriculum. Not sure if it's because we were enrolled in a more *beginner* type class, but I would have loved for them have included some more techniques. I thought my child would learn to float / tread water and they did not. We were also told one particular class would have the children being in the pool in regular clothing, a technique to help prevent drowning. This never happened. A little disappointing. Overall, would recommend and will be reenrolling my children.

Aquabilities is an amazing swim school. My daughter who is now 5 years old has been scared of water…read morefor as long as i can remember. She is now gliding and putting her face in the water. The teachers are amazing and patient.

Very decent place good programs and i like the staff very likable and sweet they are also not…read moretrying to charge me and add me into an unwanted program like "freedom aquatics" does and they do respond to emails and texts

The instructed staff were wonderful . my daughter enjoyed…read moreher swimming lessons and they gave her great attention while other swimmers were there. The energy was great, thank you guys !

This facility has improved since I left it in 2023, when I gave them a 1-star review. I go there…read moreevery 2 days to swim a mile, and although their schedule leaves something to be desired (lap swim usually ends at 8:45 AM, inconvenient for me, and on Sunday mornings, you only get an hour to swim laps in the morning, not quite enough for senior citizens like me, who need 63 minutes), the personnel are now friendly. I don't know about their other offerings, as I do other forms or exercise at home and outdoors, but I hope be able to continue to get swim in without any problems. They're much better than nearby 24-Hour Fitness, which has degenerated greatly since I joined them.

This review is mainly targeted for parents who are considering sending their child to the camp…read morehere. I am 13 years old (and before you stop reading this because I told you I'm not an adult, I just want you to know that everything in this review is true and is a serious warning for you and your child) and I just finished spending a summer in the camp at the New Rochelle YMCA. I would like to start by saying that the camp is terrible. It is completely dysfunctional and quite unsafe for the children. Firstly, for whatever reason they combine the 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 and 15 year olds. Parents out there, would you want your 9 year old kid to be in a small room with a bunch of tall, aggressive 13-15 year old boys? I wouldn't. Additionally, the vulgar things that the teens do and say is definitely not appropriate for small children. (I know that the language of the teenagers is not something that the camp can control, but they can at least separate them from the smaller kids.) The breakfast at the camp is otherworldly. The only thing that is even remotely good is the bagels. Sometimes, they provided cold bagels with a small pint of whipped butter and a knife to spread it yourself. Other breakfasts were someone's failed attempt at trying to be nutritious. Everything was cold, they acted as if they didn't have a microwave. And don't even get me started on the lunch, we received a weekly rotation of whole grain buttered noodles, a bready meatball sandwich, a cold tortilla with cheese that had actual mold on it and two cold pieces of bread with pieces of shredded meat on it. Swimming was actually quite enjoyable. Being IN the pool was fun but everything before and after wasn't. The changing process to get into our bathing suits was actually frightening. We changed in tents and had minimal time to change, all while we were holding our tents up because the little kids were trying to turn them over while we were in it. And no one stopped them. The changing process afterwards was also not easy. We walked through the halls in our swimsuits, soaking wet and cold, no privacy. We had to get changed in stalls or in a locker room in minimal time. For those who chose not to swim, we would have to stand against the wall and essentially stare ahead of us (because we weren't allowed to do anything else) until the kids who swam were done changing. The kids fight a lot, physically and verbally. When I tell you, the counselors do absolutely nothing to try and stop these fights except an occasional "guys relax" or "let's be kind to one another". Which never works. And for the longest time we are doing nothing. I'm going to write out a day in the life of me at camp to help you understand the full experience. I get to camp and we all sit at a table outside under a tent. We are briefly yelled at to put our phones away. So what do we do if we can't use our phones? NOTHING. Nothing at all, because they have nothing for us to do. Watching paint dry would be more productive than spending a day at that camp. Then we head inside and go to our designated room. They hand out breakfast but OH, what do you know? They've only brought 4 pop tarts and there's 11 kids who need breakfast. So the counselor leaves the room to get more and returns a whopping 10 minutes later with 5 more breakfasts. Just as I raise my hand so I can get one (since we are not allowed to get up and ask for it) five 9 year old kids -2 of which have already finished their breakfast- go and take it from the counselor's hand. 8 minutes later, the counselor returns with more breakfast for the rest of us, and we eat it, well, as much as we can of it for the 1 minute that we have left to eat since it took so long to get in the first place. Then after breakfast time, we go to the park. Ah yes, the park for children ages 10 and under, what a perfect place for teenagers to be. After being there for about an hour and a half, we go back to our designated room. We sit there, wondering what we're going to do. We ask the counselors. "Nothing" they would say without looking up from their phones. Bored, I would briefly take my phone out of my bag. Immediately, the counselor shows up out of no where, holding a bucket, demanding my phone. I reluctantly place it in the bucket and sit there doing nothing. After about an hour, we are given small notebooks and told to use them as journals. After 15 minutes of that, its time to get changed for swimming. I already described the changing process of swimming earlier in this review so I'm going to skip it now. That's basically everything about this YMCA camp that is not good. Everything here is factual and from my experience. I didn't use any type of artificial intelligence and this is all true, from my experience, nothing exaggerate. I hope this gives you a good understanding of what your child will actually experience while being there.