Carnegie Park Swim & Health Club

This gym is closing on July 31, 2013 for major construction and is then reopening to building residents only. So don’t even think about joining unless a) you live in the building and b) you don’t need to work out until sometime well into 2014.
Meanwhile, my observations on the gym as it is run now.
* It’s reasonably priced for a gym with these facilities.
* It has a nice pool. A few drawbacks do need to be pointed out:
1. Tons of kids. They have swimming classes in the afternoons starting and around 1PM and evenings up to around 7PM and the noise level and chaos are unbelievable. If you want to swim laps, you need to get there in the morning or late evening. It’s also very crowded on weekends
2. The pool is completely closed on Fridays for maintenance. Annoying, since an end of week swim might be nice. Isn’t there another, less desirable time to close it?
3. It’s pretty shallow all the way across — 3ft to 5ft. I always thought deeper pools give a better workout, since you wouldn’t be able to count on putting your feet down and standing at any time.
4. The lifeguards are terrible. Often talking loudly on cellphones, joking around with staff, their voices echoing all around the tiled walls. I don’t know if these guys can save lives, but they can definitely ruin your swim.
* The facility has been getting a little tired. Cardio equipment sometimes breaks down and isn’t fixed for weeks. Frequent water leaks from floors above, in both locker room and gym. (I’ve been there through at least three or four.) Renovations will fix this, one hopes.
* Dreadful music. They play a bad FM rock station over terrible speakers, with commercials. Every since the invention of the Walkman in the late 1970s, playing music in gyms has been unnecessary. In the age of the iPod, it is now really unacceptable. All they are doing with their commercial radio is interfering with people trying to listen to their own choices.
To sum up, it’s a pretty good gym, with room for improvement. It remains to be seen what the renovations will accomplish and what the new gym policies will be.

I’m frickin’ brilliant. Know why. Swimming and me? We get alone exceedingly well. And I’ve been looking for a good place to go that was more than a city pool. They’re great but I’ve wanted more space to move and a comfortable place to lounge and make a real day of being at the pool. After doing an exhaustive amount of Googling I came upon this place. Nice pool. Sun deck! Lounge chairs! But though they do have memberships, the club is essentially for the residents of the Carnegie Park apartments and there are no guest passes. I couldn’t figure out a way around it and into the pool for a day. But then I heard they have trial memberships for $ 30 which allow you use of the facilities for a full week. Nice. I spent a lovely day swimming in their 4-​lane pool. It’s shallow – 3 feet up to 5 ft– but good for a few laps. There were a few kids from the building playing with the foam noodles and paddle boards provided by the pool management but we each had our own space and their parents were close by and I had my own lane to myself. I laid out in the sun on the comfy lounge chairs on the sundeck and indoors in the surrounding pool area. Enjoyed the complementary iced tea and lemonade (They were from a mix but it was a nice surprise). And I get to go back all week for $ 30! Not a great permanent solution to my swimming jones but a nice way to ease out of summer.

Great club!!! Nice staff… Very Nice pools & deck. Great for parties :))