Trends · data through September 2026

Gyms in New York

Iceflower tracks 753 stores from 383 gym chains in New York. 24 Hour Fitness grew fastest over the last year, ahead of Best Fitness and YMCA.

Rankings come from real card and bank transactions across a panel of 130M+ US and EU consumers. We publish relative growth and rankings, never revenue figures. About the data

Tracked chains
383
Tracked stores
753
Consumer panel
130M+

Growth ranking

Fastest-growing tracked gym chains

Ranked by year-over-year growth of share of tracked local spend. Arrows show movement in the rankings since last year. Each dot in the chart is one tracked chain: bigger market position to the right, faster growth higher up, more tracked stores in a bigger dot. Colors match the store map below. 24 Hour Fitness and Best Fitness sit in the high-growth half.

# Chain YoY growth
RankChainRank movementYoY growth
1 24 Hour Fitness ▲2 +15.9%
2 Best Fitness ▲1 +4.8%
3 YMCA - +0.5%
4 Anytime Fitness ▲2 +0.4%
5 NYSC ▲1 -5.2%
6 Equinox - -9.5%
7 Retro Fitness ▲1 -13.7%
8 Gold's Gym ▲1 -16.9%
9 Planet Fitness - -19.0%
10 Freehold ▼1 -81.9%
11 Blink Fitness ▼7 -97.7%
  • Equinox
  • YMCA
  • Crunch Fitness
  • Vent Fitness
  • Metabolic Meltdown
  • Planet Fitness
  • Chelsea Piers Fitness
  • Other tracked chains

Store footprint

Store map

753 tracked store locations in New York. The 7 largest tracked chains are highlighted. The top 5 chains by store count run 283 of the 753 stores (38%); 348 of the 383 tracked chains have a single store here. 6% of the tracked health & beauty stores here are gyms, against 4% across the United States.

  • Equinox (38)
  • YMCA (41)
  • Crunch Fitness (40)
  • Vent Fitness (4)
  • Metabolic Meltdown (1)
  • Planet Fitness (115)
  • Chelsea Piers Fitness (2)
  • Other tracked chains

Top tracked chains by store count

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