Recent studies show that working out won’t help you lose weight. So why go to the gym? To check people out, of course. But New York Sports Clubs are just as diverse as the city itself. Each gym is like a little litmus test of neighborhood’s population. This week, we investigate all the variety New York Sports Clubs have to offer.

For all our Brooklyn pride, all rents being equal, we know the Village is better.

It’s close to everything, has great restaurants, a fun nightlife and lots of history. Even though it’s overrun with Starbucks, let’s face it, if the area had a White Castle, it would probably keep its ice machine on all the time.

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Recent studies show that working out won’t help you lose weight. So why go to the gym? To check people out, of course. But New York Sports Clubs are just as diverse as the city itself. Each gym is like a little litmus test of neighborhood’s population. This week, we investigate all the variety New York Sports Clubs have to offer.

On first work out at the 91st and Third Ave New York Sports Club we were confused. Where were all the rich, botoxed women? Where were the newly divorced Westchester dads cutting loose in the city? And why did everyone look so different?

New York may be a melting pot, but people don’t actually do that much melting. Sure, every demographic and race might be represented, but everyone sticks to their own neighborhood. A friend of ours once made the mistake of his taking his girlfriend and her Upper East Side mom to Queen’s Hideaway in Greenpoint. Things never progressed passed how “interesting” Brooklyn is these days.

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Recent studies show that working out won’t help you lose weight. So why go to the gym? To check people out, of course. But New York Sports Clubs are just as diverse as the city itself. Each gym is like a little litmus test of neighborhood’s population. This week, we investigate all the variety New York Sports Clubs have to offer.

[Full disclosure: After working out at innumerable NYSCs, we think Cobble Hill has the most attractive clientele. Our preference for people who exercise in raggedy University of Chicago t-shirts might make this write-up biased.]

Except for a few old folks who invested in the neighborhood early, most of the members of the Cobble NYSC on Pacific and Boerum Place are under thirty. These are the people who write your newspapers, proofread your novels and curate your galleries. They are the over-educated working class of New York.

Need proof? Last night, more channels were tuned to PBS’s broadcast of the British documentary 49 Up than to Dancing With the Stars.

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Recent studies show that working out won’t help you lose weight. So why go to the gym? To check people out, of course. But New York Sports Clubs are just as diverse as the city itself. Each gym is like a little litmus test of neighborhood’s population. This week, we investigate all the variety New York Sports Clubs have to offer.

If you had any doubt that New York is an amazing city, look no further than the Gramercy NYSC on 23rd and Park. Just four avenues away from the Chelsea gym, it’s a completely different world. Instead of a rich, gay clientele, members of the Gramercy gym are rich and straight. New York: it’s a hell of a town.

To Brooklynites, Gramercy is often lumped together with Murray Hill. But there’s a subtle difference. Since Gramercy is closer to downtown (but still a safe distance from the crazies) and has that locked-up park, it’s a bit more expensive. Its residents are wealthier and older. If Murray Hill is where frat guys move to after graduation, Gramercy is where Murray Hill guys move to after their promotion.

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Recent studies show that working out won’t help you lose weight. So why go to the gym? To check people out, of course. But New York Sports Clubs are just as diverse as the city itself. Each gym is like a little litmus test of neighborhood’s population. This week, we investigate all the variety New York Sports Clubs have to offer.

Chelsea is not as gay you think, especially if assumed everyone there is gay. There are women who live there, straight men who found great deals there and random people going out to Craftsteak there. The gym is just as mixed.

Most of the women who work out at the Chelsea gym look like the type who would have a gay man as a roommate. Maybe they like the security of knowing that none of the sex going on at the gym will involve them. But to be frank, these women wouldn't get picked up at the gym anyway.

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