PureGym Stuy Heights

This location is consistently dirty. The entire locker room needs to be thoroughly cleaned including the inside and outside of the lockers and the benches. The gym overall looks unsanitary and unkempt. I rarely see staff actively cleaning, and there are often used wipes left scattered around. There’s also a noticeable mold-like smell throughout the facility. The floors need regular mopping, and the entire space should be properly disinfected on a consistent basis. The gym is usually overcrowded and feels cramped, yet there aren’t enough weight machines to accommodate members. Instead of having so many treadmills and cycling machines that are barely being used, it would make more sense to add more weight equipment. A remodeling and full revamp are long overdue. Because of these ongoing issues, I genuinely dread going to this location.

DO NOT RECOMMEND! The new pod doors for entry and exit are awful and feel like a fire hazard and the wifi is terrible so the QR code never loads to be able to open the doors. I was formerly a Blink Member and just canceled my membership to Pure Gym. The staff is unhelpful. The exterior entrance to the gym wasn’t salted, and now has a thick layer of ice.

The AC being broken during a heatwave is just the most recent issue, but definitely not the first. This gym constantly takes forever to fix things. Machines stay broken for weeks, the bathrooms are a mess, there are leaks, and sometimes there’s not even running water. It’s a cycle that never ends. The first warning sign was when they started restricting access to machines based on membership type. Equipment that used to be available to everyone is now locked unless you upgrade, which just makes people stop using it altogether. So now those machines are sitting there, untouched, all for the sake of making more money. Now we’re stuck with out of order equipment, broken plumbing, machines you can’t even use depending on your membership, and no air conditioning while it’s over 90 degrees outside. But no matter what’s broken, they never miss a payment. That bill comes like clockwork every month. There’s talk that PureGym is taking over. Hopefully that means better maintenance and actual accountability. But honestly, it’s hard to say. This place feels like it’s being run for profit, not for people. Do better.

Welcome to PureDystopia! I cancelled my membership not because Blink was ever perfect, but because whatever PureGym has turned it into no longer resembles a gym, or frankly, a place meant for humans. Blink used to be mediocre but functional: you walked in, worked out, tolerated the crowd, and left feeling better for having moved your body. Since the takeover, it’s been transformed into a bizarre TSA-meets-tech-bro experiment. You now have to scan into and out of the building through automated pod doors that regularly malfunction. When they break (often), people get stuck inside. The irony is impressive: prices go up, staff quietly disappear, machines fall into disrepair, and the solution is more surveillance. Compliance gates. Zero human assistance. It feels less like a gym and more like a beta test for how much inconvenience and monitoring people will tolerate in the name of “access.” Maybe I’m wrong. Maybe this isn’t a soft experiment in normalization and surveillance. Maybe it’s just staggering incompetence paired with corporate cost-cutting. Either way, it’s not something I’m paying for anymore. This is not the future, this is hell.

I’ve been going to this location consistently since August and they haven’t had a full set of free weights since. No 7.5lb no 5lb. I came here Saturday and there were no weights on the towers. There’s never anyone on the floor to help with entering, membership questions, or to keep the space sanitary. I can’t wait for a better option to come into the neighborhood.