Brooklyn EXPO Center — Local services in New York

This place is the BEST! Imagine the show American Ninja Warrior, take all that professional course equipment and put it into a convention hall. Uhh, yeah, because this building used to be the Brooklyn Convention Center! It’s got a trampoline area, all the standard professional ninja equipment (including warped walls and salmon ladder), a toned down-less-difficult ninja area, a foam pit, an outdoor area, climbing walls, a parkour area, a basketball dunking area, and they continue to build it out with MORE equipment! And they change out the obstacles regularly.

We have come for the 2hr open play on weekends (if you book the 10 or 11 AM session you get one adult in free for each under 5yr old admission) and my 9yr old daughter attends in the youth ninja teams class once a week. We travel from just 15 mins away, but apparently there are others who commute more than an hour each way as this is the best ninja warrior gym for many miles around! It is awesome for 3yr olds to 55yr olds. Seriously, I’ve invited 20-something family members and even a 55yr old friend to come watch my daughter’s class and enjoy some open play time. They loved it. So does my 3yr old and I (44). If you didn’t get enough playground time in your youth or it is simply too cold outside, come play!

They have adult classes, kids classes, kids camps, after school, open play, private lessons, birthdays, and Thursdays from 7 PM - 9 PM is adults (21+, bring your ID) night.

The equipment can be intimidating so be sure to ask any of the staff in black shirts how to use/do the obstacles. Many of them have...

weird vibe in here. It's honestly, mostly a kids play place. That's how the majority of the branding is. You can either do something super easy with kids running around, or you can attempt the extremely difficult american ninja warrior stuff in the adult area which didn't feel maintained and had no instructions, and also features kids running around. There aren't even real water fountains, or changing rooms in the bathrooms. Everything feels kind of like, oily? kind of gross? kind of just, off - the way a chucky cheese feels once you've left the garden of eden, lost your innocence.

I'm shocked this place has memberships, because I really would never come in here unless I was literally training to be on american ninja warrior and needed the exact type of obstacles from that show. Otherwise this place feels pretty useless outside of hosting kids birthday parties. Definitely not like a real gym.

I think this place should just commit hard to the kids gymnasium thing because its 90% of the way there anyways. I really, would feel uncomfortable coming here to work out in any way. The person at the front desk sensed that I and the person I came with were not vibing and told us there's an adults only night on Fridays. Somehow, this is even more of a turn off to me? It makes it feel like a time filler activity I would do if I were trying to get away from my kids for a night without going to hard, like a roller rink, or mini golf, or bowling. Just not something I'd spend my friday night on as a young adult...

OMG! What a grand and Beautiful space. It's huge! Also an event space with of course open concept for one to come in and personalize the space to their unique needs. The bathrooms are really clean and pretty. Love the flooring and tile in the bathroom. My daughter's school rented this space for a scholars award ceremony for students who scored 3/4's on the NY State exams. It was absolutely lovely the way the parent volunteers and staff decorated the space. This would be awesome for larger conferences as I'm sure it can hold up to at least 2-3k people. There were about 900 people present for our event and there was still a lot of space for more. The location is near the pier in Williamsburg so the view is Beautiful. You literally can see the city across the way. There's​ major construction happening throughout the neighborhood so in about 3 months or so, the place is going to look like a smaller version of Manhattan. Very metropolitan, except there's not variety in transportation. Only one train line and it's about a 10 minute walk to the actual space. However, Uber, getting, Lyft will all get you there for a reasonable fare depending on where you're coming in from. There are also a few hotels in the area and local air BnB for out of...