At $3,600-a-year, the Equinox Printing House gym may sound outrageously pricey in a city with a gym on every corner.
But what sets the facility apart is its towering height, which — unlike cheapo, street-level sweat boxes — allows its monied members to soak up the sunset in its rooftop pool after an invigorating workout or practice yoga in a studio whose floor-to-ceiling windows reveal a skyline view, allowing the chosen few to feel as if they are literally levitating above the hustle and bustle of the city as they assume bhujangasana.
Or it would. But the elevator doesn’t work.
hears that, instead, the begrudgingly earth-bound members are left waiting in line to share the only workout equipment in the part of the facility that’s located on the ground floor, and have even been separated from their Range Rover keys when the hated lift goes out mid-session.
Meanwhile, the members — who reportedly include Clair Danes and Will Arnett — aren’t even allowed to walk up the stairs because of the building’s rules, alleged one ticked off client.
In a Reddit post titled “Printing House Elevator,” “How is it possible that the elevator at Printing House is broken so often? Today the elevator broke around ~6PM and per usual, people were stranded downstairs because their belongings (keys, jackets, etc.) were upstairs in the locker rooms.”
“The staff had no method in place to enable members to retrieve their items. The front desk said it could be up to an hour / did not know when we would be able to get our things,” they fumed, “Apparently, we are not allowed to use the stairs.”
This tension-inducing fix would be a perfect opportunity for the members to unwind by making use of the facility’s much ballyhooed “Zen suite” — except, alas, it’s upstairs.
One commenter wisecracked: “Someone can lower your things down with a rope-and-basket pulley, and they can make it a…
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