<p>What is NYU's relationship with Chelsea Piers? When I look up the exercise facilities Chelsea Piers comes up on the NYU website. </p>
<p>Also, how available are the work out rooms/exercise machines/weights?</p>
<p>some of the more esoteric sports classes (ice skating, hockey) take place there. you pay NYU and you’re responsible for going there to the classes. (it’s pretty far from campus.) </p>
<p>during “rush hour” (i think 5 to 7? 4 to 7?) at coles or palladium, you’re limited to 25 minutes on a cardio machine, and they do check. they have some sort of a digital queue machine.</p>
<p>otherwise, on a normal day, it’s very easy to get a machine. but i would go at off times (mornings, early afternoon, late night) in order to save yourself the headache of having to wait for a machine.</p>
<p>the cardio room in Palladium is terrific. you can plug into the soundsystem and watch TV or listen to the radio if you happen to forget your iPod that day. lots of treadmills, elliptical machines and bikes. there’s even a spinning room for spinning classes. </p>
<p>coles: mercer and bleecker. we have our varsity sports games there. (tear it up! nights) this is the gym with the rooftop track. i’ve never gone into the pool, but there is one. racquetball/handball courts. weight rooms and cardio rooms. rock climbing wall. basketball courts.</p>
<p>palladium: union square. very nice pool. huge cardio room and huge weight room. the locker rooms are clean and always kept tidy. the newer gym, with newer machines and flat screen TVs in the cardio room. basketball courts. </p>
<p>i recommend the classes they offer. i took a tennis class there and even though it was winter and we never really got to go up to the tennis court, it was a nice way to run around and built up a sweat. my former roommate took a dance class with NYU and had a great time. i paid for my class with campus cash.</p>
<p>I just want to add that Coles doesn’t have a/c, so it can get incredibly hot. On the upside, if you can stand it, it IS much less crowded than Palladium. Just check to make sure you’re not going at a time when a lot of classes meet, as they will monopolize one of the work-out rooms and one of the weight rooms. Besides that, as missamericanpie said, if you go at an off time, you’ll be fine, particularly in the weight rooms.</p>