Great idea, not especially well executed.
Firstly, a strange aspect of the experience is that many, if not most, of the "patrons" here are actually WeWork employees, rather than paying customers. What makes that particularly annoying is (presumably because they're not actually here to work and no one seems to be managing them very closely) that they spend their time socializing with one another and gossiping about people they work with. This makes sharing space with them frustratingly distracting.
The space offers free printing, except that you need to email your files to a WeWork employee to have them personally print it for you. This is inconvenient but, more importantly, totally unworkable for anyone concerned with information security - as most professionals should be - or even just basic privacy.
There are some really comfortable, productive, and aesthetically pleasing seats, but they compose are a minority of the space. Most seats are at large shared tables or railings, which doesn't really cut it, for me, for the price. Likewise the ground floor seating area is light-filled and spacious, but more than half the seats are tucked away in the dim and more claustrophobic mezzanine. On a recent visit, most of the prime seating was 'booked for the day' by 9:30am, though no one had apparently showed up to claim much of it by afternoon. read more