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Help! I live in Williamsburg and can’t afford my rent, let alone a gym membership
Solution: The Parks & Recreation Metropolitan Pool Center. Located on Bedford and Metropolitan, it’s the lone city complex that invaded the self-centered silo of the burg (or vice versa) and successfully stayed put. Having walked past the chlorine scent for months, the time came to finally check it out.
You wake up at 6am to get your butt out the door for a morning run before work. Gear on, you head over to the McCarren Park track, thinking “Man I am so freakin’ productive! Who’s a healthy Brooklynite? Me!”
You reach the track, start doing round one of your cool eight-lap regimen, and see what appears to be a bootcamp workout occurring in the far right corner of the track. Lap two comes around, and these people are now throwing medicine balls and marching in place. Lap 3: crunches while some ridiculously toned man in a turban looks down on them. Your mind goes from self-appreciation to “Dammit, no amount of laps are going to kick my ass like that!” Who is this guy?