Manhattan Plaza Health Club

Fantastic experience: Love this place. Great pool. Never too crowded. The best tennis program in the city. 5 indoor courts. Someone complained about several flights of stairs to get to the gym. Give me a break! A little stair climbing is a good workout.

Fantastic experience: I love that this gym is never crowded. The pool is always SUPER clean. Yes, there are some stairs involved, but if you can't climb them what are you going to the gym for in the first place?

Fantastic experience: Specifically my rating is for the climbing gym (I haven't tried the rest of the facilities). It's small, but the routes are challenging and it never seems to be too busy. The people there are really friendly too, so it's a nice atmosphere. My favourite place to climb in the city.

Fantastic experience: Small nice climbing gym. Staff really nice. Good membership price.

Fantastic experience: Great facility, attentive staff, home like feeling, best pool in Manhattan. Members mix friendly, educated, polite.

Fantastic experience: Dropped in for a day pass, great gym facilities, friendly staff, good pool can recommend as a break from sightseeing or just fitting in a work out! 5 stars!

Fantastic experience: My wife swims here. Paradise!

Fantastic experience: I love my gym. Especially the pool! Friendly, attentive staff, clean facilities, top marks all around!

Fantastic experience: Clean and friendly environment. High quality machines and the staff is well trained and experienced.

Fantastic experience: The staff is very friendly!!! My son and my daughter are swimmer's. We were in NYC for a week. The pool was awesome.. They fellt like home. Thank you guys!! Alondra & Ricardo from

Fantastic experience: My friends and I wanted to try bouldering and checked out this gym because it was offering a groupon deal. We were all new and inexperienced and quite frankly, intimidated but gave it a shot. Jake at the gym checked us in and instructed us. He was very calm, patient, and encouraging! Other climbers at the gym were all nice and encouraging as well, giving us tips and spotting us. It’s been a good start to our rock climbing journey. They also switch the rocks around which makes the trip less repetitive.

Fantastic experience: Spending time in this sports club is our favorite family activity

Fantastic experience: Incredible value. For $99/mo you get access to so many amenities that other gyms will charge you a kidney for. Friendly staff and the space is always clean!

Fantastic experience: Takes a while to get used to the higgeldy piggeldy access routes, but the facilities and sense of being supported are well worth it.

Fantastic experience: My kid loves their swimming lessons

Fantastic experience: Great place. Very polite and friendly staff, clean and nice interior, opened pool and very reasonable prices. Great job guys!

Fantastic experience: Newly joined member and can't say enough good things. There's so many different activities to do, friendly staff, and the membership pricing is reasonable.

Fantastic experience: This is our favorite gym in NYC! Whenever we are in town, we come here and the staff and members welcome us with open arms. The facilities are very clean and well maintained and we LOVE the pool with retractable roof and the patio for sunning after a swim workout. Thank you Shawn, Shannon, Missa and all the other great staff!

Fantastic experience: Been going here since 2006 one of the best clubs in Manhattan to join a tennis league and consistently play for an affordable price.

Fantastic experience: This gym re-opened it’s facility recently along with the changing indoor Covid-19 restrictions measures since January 2022. What prompted joining was their unbeatable Membership Special Promotion that was more promotional over many of the higher end luxury health clubs that do have swimming pools included in their facilities along with memberships. These of course are ones in NYC, like the YMCA, or Equinox, etc. Now, the better half of having this type of membership is that it simply was affordable and that there were group classes offered such as Yoga, TRX classes, Pilates, and Aérobics. The facility also has a steam-room and sauna. Both very clean and very spacious spaces for more than five individuals seated at one time. Besides its convenience by location just off of 42nd Street & Times Square, the distance to the subway is relatively quick and easy. One can find the staffing very awesome and honestly so Uber Friendly and competent! That’s hard to beat. Often enough it’s whenever we need something done or someone to talk to that sometimes will make the difference. I’ve been at places like being at the former NYHRC (New York Health & Racquet Club), where it was awfully dysfunctional and ruder. Nice, but not nice.(Pre-Covid.) Otherwise, for a place to go to, to focus on losing the extra-added baggage, the weighted gainsay, and trying to keep up « The Skinny » like with the sexier models around, doing the same—the club caters to that too. Competition is never easy staying fit. Yet, a pleasure when ‘body-shaming’ isn’t obstructive or in the way or too obvious to contend with either being there to shower or to workout at any given moment or by anything else like that more or less. It’s been nevertheless a uniquely attractive and superb modernized sensation somewhat comparable to Equinox, in some instances. Reaching that level that runs evenly even through certain limitations. Having had really quite an exceptional experience with the group classes, along with meeting many other members who were as surprisingly warmer and more welcoming than imagined no different than my University online course classes were as well is an added bonus, clearly. Insofar as the noted weekly schedules, found online too, the MPHC offers enough to satisfy everyone’s palate. Younger or older. Physically speaking, positively perfect. No complaints whatsoever. Great relaxing atmosphere. Excellent physical benefits, détente and ambiance. And administration. Less negativity all around and more people to engage in socially speaking. For a health club of this size comparable to some, for these reasons by example, it’s ampler and greatly accommodating. Definitely worth one’s time, effort, and money spent on working on something highly beneficial. Regardless of an age or individual disposition. Truly amazing how it will garner people from all walks of life here in every direction.

Fantastic experience: I mostly go for the rock climbing gym, which has been a lot of fun. The membership also includes an indoor pool, weight room, and cardio room. Best deal I've seen around for a gym membership with that many amenities.

Fantastic experience: Great pool to practice scuba skills. Nice professional and helpful staff. Very clean and well maintained facility.

Fantastic experience: Great gym, good pool (though could be colder but I know that’s just a preference for training), very nice and helpful staff! Spa is nice too. Guillermo gives amazing massages!

Fantastic experience: I’ve been fortunate to travel a lot. Whenever I get the chance I get a massage. My top four massages have been in NYC, ISRAEL, TULUM and PR. Lawrence May is AMAZING. He has years and years of experience and is constantly improving his game by educating himself in various techniques. He understands the body intuitively and scientifically. I had a 90 massage with him on Wednesday. It was fantastic as usual. If you can’t find a great massage therapist Lawrence is your guy. He can go easy and give you a relaxing massage or go DEEP and get in all those nooks and crannies. Of course, he will put the spa music on, he has the hot towels and essential oils if you want a full on pamper session. Whatever your wish, HE’S THE GOAT. He is worth the train ride, the cab fare or the UBER fee. Just go! Staff at Manhattan Plaza Health Club is great and very accommodating.

Fantastic experience: Love the swimming pool… it is hard to find good swimming pool in nyc, but Manhattan plaza health club has great swimming pool and staffs… kid’s friendly

Fantastic experience: I've always loved this gym, but this last year during the pandemic has shown the willingness, (and capability) to go above and beyond what has been required. The front desk staff has been stalwart under difficult and often changing circumstances. The lifeguard crew has been a real team, first class. Climbing gym, pool, training floor and locker room have all been immaculate. I can't say enough about how hard the entire team has worked. It's been my absolute refuge. Looking forward to seeing it back fully populated. It's clear they have long been prepared, even taking the opportunity to do upgrades and alterations, all beneficial. Not a moment has been wasted. A well deserved A++

Fantastic experience: Great facility. I am a member of the sister club RIRC. If I lived closer here then I would definitely join

Fantastic experience: Positive: Communication , Professionalism , Quality I’m at MPHC regularly and can’t say enough about how professional and warm the staff is. It’s a supportive environment and a great facility. I use the pool several times a week, and it’s always well maintained and inviting. It’s a special place.

Fantastic experience: Tried calling around to a few other gyms before coming across this one. MPHC was the only one to offer me and my friend a guest pass to try out the gym before deciding we wanted to possibly become members. For FREE. After work we headed over there to give it a try. The walls, the atmosphere and everything about it was great. The staff are super friendly. Side note, the rock gym is a mostly Bouldering based gym.. which I'm perfectly cool with.

Fantastic experience: Positive: Quality Great climbing gym! Sure, it's on the smaller side, but packed with many problems of a variety of levels. I particularly enjoy the bouldering section - and the community spirit. Staff is friendly and pricing is very reasonable.

Fantastic experience: Excellent facilities and it even has a pool! I visited the climbing gym. Fair warning: the difficulty here is harder than in other climbing gyms I've been to.

Fantastic experience: Always clean. One issue is the timing with the scuba divers and the free lane. They're normally supposed to have Tuesday's and Thursday's, but lately have been there a few additional days and use the shallow side of the pool where amateur swimmers tend to congregate...thus over crowding the shallow side.

Fantastic experience: On top of normal gym space, they have one of the best pools in the city. Great climbing gym as well, may be small but their setting is solid. Staff is also super friendly

Fantastic experience: I only am a member of the climbing gym. Its a pretty decent place with super awesome staff, Ryan and andrew were both super amazing. very knowledgeable, and helpfull. I must have asked them around 1 million questions combined. yet they still were happy to help.

Fantastic experience: I have been coming here since the mid eighties. I have been to many before that and this gym is so nice and special. Clean pleasant staff and beautiful locker room and pool area. To many nice things to mention.

Fantastic experience: Beautiful, clean pool with attentive lifeguards. I was only there during Covid when getting a 30min time slot was really hard. Have to sign up 48hrs on the dot for a slot and forget it, if you're a minute late. Wish like some other venues they allowed 2 in lane for circle swims.

Fantastic experience: Amazing pool, staff, sun deck, and a small but mighty rock climbing gym! The rock climbing gym has consistently fun routes that teach you about rock climbing techniques. The staff is awesome and put a lot of care and love into the climbing gym. Overall very reasonably priced. An actual unicorn in the middle of the city!

Fantastic experience: Sign up here shortly after moving to Hell's Kitchen. Fantastic gym with a ton of facilities and at very reasonable rates.

Fantastic experience: Have ready shared my very positive feel on other space on my phone. Virginia Klein

Fantastic experience: Rock Climbing gym is so cool! Took Belay private with Janelle. Listen!!! She’s the sweetest. I had a great time, got rid of my nerves with her help and now I’m Belay certified. Definitely worth it! The staff and facility is great. I’ll be back.

Fantastic experience: Small but great gym. Not best for the beginner as it's mostly a bouldering gym with v3+ climbs. Great for intermediate and advanced climbers. Routes updated frequently. They don't have as many routes as they used to, but still plenty for me to keep up with.

Fantastic experience: Need a good sweat? Trying to get in shape? Manhattan Plaza Health Club is here, For your fitness escape. Friendly desk staff, And a locker room fit for king, This is isn’t your grandfather’s racquet club, Ouch! I think I just pulled my hamstring. Swimming pools, free weights, And cardio machines galore, Don’t miss the early morning spin class, It will have you sweating your way out the front door. This moderately price gym, Is far more superior to others in Midtown West, For about $100 a month, MPHC will help you feel your best.

Fantastic experience: The climbing gym is small but had both bouldering and top rope sections with a variety of cool climbs. The walls are reset regularly. The staff is fantastic.

Fantastic experience: The staff at this location are the friendliest that I have ever met! The change room and showers are very nice. They have towel service and flip-flop service, shampoo and conditioner in the showers as well. The rock climbing gym is fairly small for space but has densely packed and unique bouldering problems. The bouldering problems usually don't have room to go very high but they do go up corners, a cave section, and through/around an archway. I loved how the setting for the boulders wasn't just vertical like most gyms have it. There is often more of a traverse and sometimes climbing through a door archway. There are only a handful of auto-belay setups. There is a cool lead-climbing "roof" above the bouldering section but that probably gets little use. The people I met climbing here for a couple hours were all super friendly. I didn't know anyone there but ended up talking to quite a lot of people which is different from most climbing gyms I've been to. There is also a weight room, cardio equipment, pool, and tennis courts at this location but I did not use them.

Fantastic experience: Good variety of free weights and equipments, pool, steam room, sauna and whirlpools. They have a good number of classes all day. The locker room is well kept and clean (the men's locker room at least). The price is not absurd given the amount of amenities that are included (note that rock climbing and tennis are extra) and the best thing: the gym doesn't get too crowded.

Fantastic experience: Was visiting from out of town. Needed a pool 25 a day was worth getting my workout in. Steam room , towels did have to circle swim but if your a die hard swimmer worth it.

Fantastic experience: Have been a member for many years now. A very cozy gym. Climbing gym, and a pool and much more

Fantastic experience: I absolutely love this place! It’s definitely one of those high end gyms that are not commercial yet like NYSC and Crunch. They have all the amenities you could want and more. From a well equipped weight/cardio room to a full schedule of classes to a swimming pool to a rock climbing area, they have it all! There’s even a health food cafe downstairs where you can relax and decompress! It’s an absolute fitness haven!!

Fantastic experience: I’ve been a member for over 30 years and it’s like heaven on earth. Amazing classes, staff, teachers, massage therapists, trainers, quiet room, state-of-the-art equipment, and world-class pool make Manhattan Plaza Health Club a blissful oasis in the middle of the busiest city on earth. I doubt I’d survive without it here.

Fantastic experience: My favorite gym in the city so far. Good student rate with an NYU affiliation, great perks. Dry sauna, steam room, pool, hot tub, climbing gym, and unlimited classes. I couldn't use all the things I have access to if I tried. Great deal, awesome location.

Fantastic experience: I really like the equipment, everything is well maintained. The trainers are really helpful and will answer any questions. In the summer, the roof deck is fantastic. It's not glamorous but the pool is so nice.