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Renovated Curtis Hall in Sensurround
By adamg on Sun, 11/20/2011 - 10:49am
Well, or 3Dish, as Steve Garfield demontrates at the rebuilt hall in Jamaica Plain.
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the "community center" where you have to pay through the a$$
$1.50/swim for adult lap swim on top of the yearly membership, with no quantity discount. $5 for aqua-aerobics.
$25/hour to use the "community room."
+$40/month to be able to use the treadmill/elliptical/stationary bike machines (of which there are 2-3 each). $+30/month if you sign an annual contract.
Meanwhile, Mike's Gym membership is about $40 and includes group classes and (duh) the machines. When a collection of us recovered from the disbelief at what you'd have to pay to have the privileged to *maybe* use one of these machines, assuming they're not all in use...someone said "Um, I can pay that at Mike's, and it's open earlier and later."
"But this is in your community", the lady behind the desk said, making a grand gesture with her arms.
So what does membership get you at Curtis Hall? The right to run around the uncushioned track, far as I can tell, and use the basketball gym when it's not being used for a billion other things - if you and a bunch of your buddies want to have an evening pickup game...aww, too bad. The only time the gym is open for general use after 5pm is on Friday for one hour - 6 to 7pm.
Everything about the community center is unaccommodating to working adults, the people who pay the most tax dollars to the city for this kind of stuff.
Oh, and they installed new "state of the art" computers - with a 100mbit network. Kickin' it like it's 1998...
Oh, and our "bicycle friendly" mayor apparently decided that we only needed three bicycle lockups! Three! Before the renovations there were more than twice as many, and they were always in use!
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I always tout it to friends as unbelievably cheap.
Have you priced gyms with pools in this city? $45 annual membership plus $2 for each lap swim session is cheeeeeeeap. And there is a quantity discount, slight, but it exists: A punch card for $10 that gets you $12 worth of swimming sessions.
And I recall the gym as being $20/month, is it now $40? I switched to the Y when the renovation started so maybe they've raised the prices.
i tried to answer that question for you, but their website sucks
Seriously, I haven't seen such a useless, un-navigateable piece of junk in a long time. There's virtually no information on the site.
The site claims $25/year, but I'm pretty sure it was a LOT more than that. And that only gets you in the door. You have to pay much more on top of that to get in to use the machines.
You have to get your fact
You have to get your fact right before you start putting things like this up here. THE MEMBERSHIP IS $3SENIORS/$5UNDER13/$10TEENS/$25ADULTS/$45FAMILY.. THE WEIGHT ROOM AND FITNESS CENTER $20 A MONTH WITH ANNUAL CONTRACT(ONLY THING CHEAPER IS PLANET FITNESS(DUH)). THE COMMUNITY ROOM IS $25HR FOR NON COMMUNITY GROUPS THAT WANT TO USE THE ROOM LIKE EVERY OTHER SPACE IN THE BUILDING.. THE CENTER IS CALLED BCYF BOSTON CENTER FOR YOUTH AND FAMILIES NOT THE CENTER FOR WORKING ADULTS,, IT'S AN EXTRA THAT THERE ARE PROGRAMS FOR ADULTS!!!!!!!!! LIKE SOCCER ADULT TWICE A WEEK, NEVER TOO LATE BASKETBALL, ADULT LAP SWIM WHICH CAN'T GET ANY CHEAPER ANYWHERE ELSE, VOLLEYBALL, AM YOGA JANUARY 2012!!!!!! DON'T WRITE WITHOUT RESEARCH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Easy, Captain Capslock
It's a "neighborhood community center", which means it should serve the needs of the neighborhood, not JUST children and seniors.
Heaven fucking forbid a single white guy would like to go for a swim, or lift some weights, or meet up with his book club, or take a yoga class.
Why is it that everywhere else in the world, the community centers are open to everyone?