Another Gym For Avenue A: Blink Fitness Coming to New Condo Building

Does Avenue A stand for Avenue Abs? While an exhibit coming soon to Howl Arts pays tribute to the glory days of punk and drag at the Pyramid, a gym going in across the street from the club is probably more in keeping with the future of Avenue A. Blink Fitness has announced that it’ll open a club at 98 Avenue A, the lot that was home to East Village Farms until the convenience store closed in 2012 and was cleared away for a condo development.
There was plenty of scoffing when New York Sports Club opened an outpost on the dirty boulevard earlier this year, but now the idea of a gym on Avenue A doesn’t even make us, well… Blink plans to open the 12,000-square-foot club early next year. Access to the facilities, including locker rooms and cardio and strength machines, will be $25 a month.
The chain currently has 11 Manhattan locations open or in the works; according to a press release, it plans to add 300 new gyms across the country by 2020.
Once home to the Hollywood Theatre, the hulking brick building at 98 Avenue A was demolished last year; developer Ben Shaoul is currently replacing it with a condo building where one-bedrooms will go for just under $1.3 million.