Blink Fitness Ridgewood

Despite the many reviews that may seem negative, I've come around here twice and both visits were pretty decent. The gym is fairly large with the locker rooms being in the basement area, depending on the day and time, you might get lucky like me and not have to wait a second on someone using a machine. It's a nice spacious area, however my main complaint is upkeep. The staff seems relatively unattentive in the gym and the etiquette of said gym goers shows for it. Majority of the free weights were unracked, I felt that I needed to at least place them back where they're supposed to be because no one else is doing it and half of the cleaning stations were out of paper towel. No one should have to walk across half of the gym to get cleaning supplies. C'mon staff, GET IT TOGETHER! Other than that, a fine place especially when it's not flooded with people.

Gym quality and cleanliness has decayed badly! Anywhere I walk either locker rooms, bathroom, or workout sections in general is always dirty with either paper towels on the floor or garbage in general such as cans and food. Bathrooms soap dispensers are never working either. Too many kids playing around lately, the gym is supposed to be a safe and comfortable place to exercise , but with kids playing around, fighting, and jumping over each other is impossible, It’s irritating having to move to the side while having to not get hit by them. All this has been happening while STAFF, and Managers are witnessing it and do NOTHING about it. This has been just a few but main problems going on lately and as a person who’s paying their subscription and for a service I think I speak for a lot of people when I point a these issues.

Very poorly kept gym, many machines are broken and have been for months. They rarely replenish the wipes for machines so no one wipes them down, super unsanitary. Also no one re-racks their weights and people sit on machines for hours. Of course this is a budget gym so you don’t expect super high standards, but this one is really bad compared even compared to other blinks in the city.

I’ve been coming here for the last (almost) five years and haven’t really had a huge issue. The weights are usually left around and the staff doesn’t really pay any mind to putting anything back where it should be so everything’s kind of everywhere. I got used to that for the most part, but I got yelled at by a fellow gym member when I asked him to lower his music playing on a boom box speaker, which I could hear over noise cancelling headphones and music at full blast. He’s had yelling issues at least 3 times when people ask him to lower his music, yelling across the gym two of the times. He’s been playing his music on a speaker for the last the last few weeks and I haven’t seen anything done about it besides him being walked out twice and coming back the next days to do the same thing. Just the generally rude presence and violent yelling, and worrying about it happening again, kills the early gym atmosphere.

Horrible gym. Employee started dusting the lights during business hours while people were working out below. If you yourself are wearing a shirt to cover your face, do you think the people around you who you are dropping dust on want to be breathing it in? People started coughing and tried to cover their faces. I ended up workout early. Health hazard and dangerous. Do not go.