Climbing the Brooklyn Bridge (Sort Of)

Brooklyn Boulders by Shooting Brooklyn

Since opening in late 2009, Brooklyn Boulders, located in a refitted warehouse formerly occupied by a New York Daily News, has become some-more than only an 18,000 square-foot stone rock rock climbing facility, creation it a largest in New York City. The gym has also established itself as a hub for a stone rock rock climbing community in a most populous city in a US.

BKB differs from a stone walls at Chelsea Piers as well as a Manhattan Plaza Health Club in that a entire facility is dedicated to climbing. Among a gyms offered points is a convenienceBKB staff teach beginner belay classes 4 times a day, each day.

For those who have been only starting out or who want to lower their stone rock rock climbing abilities, BKB offers week-long Summer Adventures for $495, that embody gear, climbing, yoga, art as well as ubiquitous outside fun time in circuitously civic parks.

Since sorting out a kinks that inevitably arise when starting new ventures in recession economies as well as renovating buildings in former industrial wastelands, BKB right away offers every day yoga classes, sells surfboards as well as will in a future market in-house designed skateboards.

Other features embody a professionally-graffitied decor, walls by Spaeth Design (run by a family of gym co-owner Stephen Spaeth) as well as a scalescaleablemodel of one of a towers on a Brooklyn Bridge. In other words, BKB is quickly becoming one of a coolest illness establishments in New York City.

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Feature Image: Brooklyn Bridge, NYC by laverrue


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