Margaret Dagrosa

Review of YMCA of Greater New York, Dodg...

I have been going to this Ymca for around 13 years...

I have been going to this Ymca for around 13 years now, and I had a terrible experience on sunday. This is not the first time I felt this way and I have experienced this kind of disorganization the past few months. I understand it is a Ymca and there are a lot of kids that go there on Sunday but what the Y was allowing was inappropriate. I'm fine with the kids yelling and running around the locker rooms. I am fine with them running around the showers, but I am not okay with them being on the tread mills and in th weight lifting area. This is an area just for adult and children should not be allowed. I pay 75 dollars a month to be able to work out, and on a day the gym is packed there should not be little kids playing around and messing around on the machines, when paying members want to use those machines. There was a five year old running and playing on a treadmill, there was another kid just sitting on a bike, there were a bunch of little kids just hanging out on the machines, and worst of all there was a little kid sleeping on one of the weight machines. There were barely any Y employees walking around and the ones who were didnt say anything. This is the adult space. The gymnasium, the classrooms, and pool are the spaces for the children. I wanted to ask an employee what the policy with children were and I had to search high and low to find one. When I asked her about the policy she seemed less than interested and extremely apathetic. She did tell me that the rule was that 12 year olds were allowed in that space with an adult. That's fine but that wasn't the case in this situation. This Y is clearly mismanaged and disorganized. They have no respect for their paying members and do not establish any kind of order in its gym. They are lucky one of these children have not been hurt or worst, because I guarantee you that one of these parents who lets their kids play on these machines like their playground equipment would not be so happy and probably would sue if their kid got hurt. I am very unhappy and seriously considering canceling my membership and going somewhere else.