Planet Fitness – Manhattan – 177th Street

Awesome place to workout. Energy is amazing since there’s always lots of people here when I come for my workout. Great deal for the price. If you just need a few basic machines (treadmill, elliptical) like me, then this is the perfect place for you!

There are a lot of people here but it’s a huge gym. It has two floors of fitness. It’s great that it accommodates a lot of people and there are many machines. It’s clean so far.

Well, it’s Planet Fitness… can’t expect deluxe service with a $ 10/​$ 20 monthly membership.
Atmosphere: Seems that all the preening, grunting muscleheads in Northern Manhattan gravitate towards this location, but people of all shapes and sizes come here to work out. Definitely have a good crowd all day/​night, but weekday evenings are definitely the most packed. Upside is, that this location is open ²⁴⁄₅ and quite early on Saturdays and Sundays.
Locker rooms are clean, but judging by the number of broken lockers (as in– someone cut into the locks), I’d definitely would not put any valuables in them. Showers are clean, water is hot enough, but it’s BYOE (Bring Your Own Everything) around these parts. Don’t expect white fluffy towels to wipe off sweat or dry yourself off in.
Service: Staff has always been polite and friendly.
Equipment: Tons of cardio machines (especially treadmills), but they’re very basic. Weight machines are very few, and some are often broken. It doesn’t help that people spend more time toying with their smartphones than actually using the machines.
It is what it is. I come here, I work out, I go home. It fills my most basic fitness needs.

Mon-​Thu 12:00 am — 12:00 am
Fri 12:00 am — 10:00 pm
Sat-​Sun 7:00 am — 7:00 pm
These are the hours that they have listed! Yet, it’s –16 right now in NY and their doors are closed.
Its 6:42an and I am waiting outside and no sign of an employee.
This is what poor business look like! They can’t even hold to their own hours of operations!

This place is an absolute nightmare. They must take all of the stupid people in northern Manhattan and offer them jobs. Don’t. Just don’t.

I think you know what you get when you join here, I used to go to the one in Astoria and this was is better just due to the fact that it’s not as packed, machines are the same, all in working order, that’s all I need, though I do hate when people just sit on the machines and text… just workout and leave people.

This is by far the worst Planet Fitness to which I’ve gone in New York. I joined Planet Fitness while I was out of town because they are everywhere, and then once I came back I was stoked to know there was the 177^th location right around the corner from me. Well… from the moment I first started going I realized I might have to say goodbye to weight training because these lunkheads (I said it) are hogging up that area every single time I go. One guy put a weight down and picked another weight up. I picked up his 1^st one and got yelled at. There’s never a Smith machine available.
No weight is ever put back in the proper space. Bars are left all over the gym. People are constantly screaming, grunting, on the phone and acting like typical meatheads. I’m not sure the staff cares at all, it’s always a mess. I hate this location and am considering just going to another location in the city. It’d be a shame to cancel since I travel out of town for work, but this is an awful location. All of the ideals of when Planet Fitness was started are not put into effect.
I like paying only $ 20 to go here and anywhere when I’m on the road, I just wish the staff was more aware… and the members need to calm down, it’s ridiculous.

I’ve been going to this location a few times a week since summer. It’s pretty clean, so no complaints there. As always, you get what you pay for. My only issue is that there aren’t people on the floor that are monitoring 1) how often the machines are wiped down and 2) how obnoxious some of the gym goers are with SUPER SUPER loud cell phone conversations that I can hear through my headphones or taking breaks in between sets to sit at the machine and cruise Facebook for over 10 minutes! Overall, it gets the job done!

The adage you get what you pay for applies here. This is a low cost large gym that benefits from having a relatively nice and polite staff. It’s generally very crowded and the free weight section is always busy with gym members monopolizing weights and machinery.
large number of cardio machines which is good but very little available for core training which means you have to depend on the somewhat antiquated machines.
Extremely loud music and you cannot always count on water or soap being available in bathroom. Also, people take forever using the 30-​minute lane. They do one set then take five minutes to either rest or check their social media device. They need more trainers on the floor to expedite those who either dwell too long in one spot or to correct those who use the machines incorrectly.
A lot of equipment needs to be updated. In all, very busy, not always clean (paper towels on the floor and funky mats) and clients who aren’t always too swift when it comes to gym etiquette.

When it first opened a year ago, all of the equipment was very clean. But as time progressed and more people started joining, it got dirtier and dirtier. It’s always very crowded during the peak hours (after work). There are a lot of treadmills and a lot of ellipticals, but many of them are usually broken. The cardio room definitely needs more air conditioning because it is incredibly hard to breathe while you are working out.
On the plus sides, they provide locker rooms, showers, day-​lockers, personal training services, and have many TV’s in the cardio room. They also have tanning services and massage chairs for «Black card» members, which are always nice after a long work out.

Mostly full of exhibitionists and voyeurs. Hey, I’m not judging! (That’s strictly forbidden by the company’s motto)

One of the most crowded gyms I’ve ever belonged to. Also, the free weights are never organized and the smith machines consistently have at least a 20 minute wait time.
Never come after work if you’re trying to lift. As a female, you will consistently receive unwarranted attention (stares and glares) like a piece of steak, but if that’s your preference, please do enjoy.

This location is okay. It’s always incredibly crowded. Lots of guys take over the free weight areas and some of the cable machines. The 30 minute workout area is always overrun with people that aren’t actually following the workout but using the machines because the other machines outside the area are in use. Not a lot of gym etiquette as far as racking weights or sanitizing machines. It could be worse but it could also be a whole lot better.

Very busy unless you get there before about 8am. A lot of equipment is already broken and has been for over a month. They claim that a repair guy comes monthly but nothing gets fixed. Good luck ever hoping to get on the smith machines for squats. No one racks weights and no staff polices them so typically over half the rack is missing and you need to walk around the gym looking for where the last person to use it left it.
Staff is friendly and it is clean. Still, if another gym opens in Washington heights I’m changing gyms.

I used to belong to a Planet Fitness in the suburbs when I was living in the Midwest and it was much more relaxed there than here, but then that doesn’t really surprise me much because the Midwest in general is so much more relaxed than New York.
My boyfriend and I like to joke about the copious butts at the WaHi Planet Fitness. There are just so many good ones. (Sorry, I know it’s a judgement-​free zone, but I’m judging positively, so it’s okay, right?)
Overall, I really like this location, and it’s so close to my apartment that I can literally wake up and walk there half-​asleep. It also seems to not be ridiculously crowded, especially if you figure out peak hours and work around them. A pretty nice experience.

It could be a little more organized. Especially in the ab section, it would be nice if the mats were cleaned up a little better and the weights over there were organized.
Gets crowded after 5, but there is almost always enough cardio equipment if thats your thing.
Still, you can’t beat $ 10/​month.
Update: the mats are pretty nasty now. Idk why they don’t just invest in something besides these shitty foam mats. Also there are only ever like 4 total. For the whole gym.

I do like it here. I like the convenience of having it a couple of blocks away from where I live.
The front desk staff could smile a little more though.

Not sure why people are complaining. It has all the necessities. Weights, cardio machines, bathrooms, and water fountains. Such a good deal for 10 $ a month. You probably aren’t going to be able to find a better deal than that. It gets crowded in the mornings and in the evenings, but it is perfect for me when I don’t have to be at class till 3, so I can go at like 12:30. One thing that is weird is that it is super crowded at like 11 — not sure why people aren’t at work, but oh well. It is a little hot up by the cardio machines, but I can’t complain because the location is extremely convenient to my apartment and it is across the street from pick and eat (yay).

This is a nice new location.
That said…
Management, please don’t let it fall apart like the location down the street. This one is brand new and already the patrons are on their way to destroying the equipment.
Please, please, please take some time to have the staff walk around and educate the patrons on how to take care of the equipment. If you at least teach the regulars how to wipe down their machines or benches after EVERY use, and put the weights back in the right place after they’re done, then others will follow suit. You create the tone. You create the norm. I get the whole «no gymtimidation» thing, but that doesn’t mean you can’t politely call people out for throwing paper towels on the ground or for leaving weights wherever they fall. This is the second NYC location I’ve seen where the clientele is oblivious or doesn’t care about proper gym etiquette. If management cares, and I’d like to believe they do, then put a little extra focus into this area. It may be hard, but get little creative. The signs are not enough.
A clean (and sanitary) gym isn’t too much to ask for. It’s a brand standard. When you pay for the black card, you’re paying for the promise that each location under the same brand name will deliver a comparable product. Make it happen. I believe in you.

Roy’s Top 5 Things to Know:
1. Brand new location, overall spacious location, gets real packed after 5pm especially early weekdays. But not bad overall for $ 10 a month.
2. Tanning and massage machines are in the back and more private than the one on 157^th street.
3. They have more machines and cardio equipment than the one on 157^th street. For example, more machines that work on your chest, shoulders, back and abs. They even have a trampoline to throw medicine balls onto and ropes as well.
4. They have four smith machines at this location, same as 157^th street so same wait time. However they have more cable machines so you don’t have tp wait as long to do cable crossovers.
5. They have TRX at this location but haven’t seen anyone hook it up.