217 Broadway - City Hall

This marathon has taken me all over the city, including some tourist-heavy areas.  City Hall takes the cake for "busiest tourist area."  Congratulations, City Hall!  You suck!

This gym has three floors.  First floor is the entrance, bottom floor is the cycling and locker rooms, and second floor is everything else.  So it's kind of like a one floor gym, except you have to walk down a flight of stairs, change, and then up two flights to get to it.  So it's...kind of...not a one floor gym.

City Hall is also aging and not "I just had some Botox, a microdermabrasion, and a mani/pedi" kind of aging.  More along the lines of "shit!  I have cellulite and tooth decay!" kind of aging.  The cardio machines are moderate in numbers and all very squished together, the ONE tiny stretching area is in the middle of nowhere, and everything has a sort of dusty-grime feel to it (including the clientele; most were fitter than average, yes, but were not aging well).  There is a lot of light, which is nice, and two studios for all you whores for classes.

The weight area was the only redeeming aspect.  It was larger than expected with doubles of most all weights (including two cable fly systems).  The machines were scattered throughout the floor so was harder to take inventory on.

The locker room was gross.  Messy, damp, and a higher/unfortunate amount of nudity.  There was a sauna which I avoided along with eye contact with everyone in there.

My grade: C