Source: Market Watch Personal Finance
New York’s Flatiron District is most widely known for its iconic Beaux Arts architecture, as a foodie fantasyland, the hub of media professionals and for its high-end boutiques on Fifth Avenue between 14th and 23rd Streets, aka the Ladies Mile. However, this district’s central locale, anchored by the famous Flatiron Building at the intersection of Broadway and Fifth Avenue, has primed it to become the new fitness mecca of Manhattan.
According to a recent article by Meredith Deliso on amNY.com, with nearly 50 gyms and fitness studios in and around the area, Flatiron is becoming the Fitness District of New York City. Some are already calling it “Fitiron.” Deliso’s article also notes that within five blocks on Fifth Avenue you can find more than eight different brands of activewear retail stores, many of which have in-store studios offering yoga and dance classes.
If you are the kind of person who likes to trade off between hard-core gym days and the sanctuary of a yoga and spa studio, this full-floor 4,713 square foot loft may just be the one for you. It’s located perfectly between the David Barton Gym that resides in the former church turned Limelight nightclub and Exhale’s Barre, Yoga, Spa studio on West 21st Street and has plenty of storage and large closets throughout for extra activewear.
This bright 3-bedroom, 3 1/2-bath apartment features 11-foot ceilings and a private keyed elevator that opens into an expansive living room area large enough for multiple entertaining areas as well as a dining room space. It is being offered at $6.995 million by Jared Seligman and Clayton T Orrigo of Douglas Elliman Real Estate.
If you are more like me and like to trade off between gym days of weights, swimming or spinning and days of burgers, fries and a milkshake, you may like this recently renovated, sun-drenched penthouse with breathtaking views of the Hudson River, Met Life Clocktower and Madison Square Park where the original Shake Shack resides. You could eat your Shake Shack burger guilt-free with this apartment’s close proximity to the 21st Street location of the New York Health and Raquet Club’s salt-water pool and “INSANITY” classes.
But, if you opt to stay home you can always order in from Flatiron’s trendy ABC Kitchen and use the indoor pool in this full-service building’s private fitness center. This one-bedroom, one-bath, 984-square-foot penthouse apartment is being offered at $2.2 million by Tyler McLeod of Warburg Realty.
Nestled at the center of Greenwich Village, Chelsea, Gramercy Park and NoMad, Flatiron will always be an area that offers something for everyone, including those less inclined to go for trendy fitness crazes. This summer you can check out the now in-full-swing Flatiron Summer Series offering free tech classes, games and entertainment on the Flatiron public plazas. And come winter you can enjoy the annual “23 Days of Flatiron Cheer” season, complete with a neighborhood-wide scavenger hunt, performances, contests, hot beverage giveaways, “Holiday Happys” happy hours and much more.
Source: Market Watch Personal Finance
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