The Lotus Method, which offered one-on-one personal training exclusively for prenatal and postnatal women, has closed at 50 Hudson. They opened there in 2023. And while I have not heard back from founder Caitlin Ritt, all information on the New York location is off the website. They still have a studio in the Bay Area. (Thanks to A. for letting me know.)

Ritt was a retired ballet dancer turned personal trainer when she realized that pregnant and post-partem women needed special attention in the gym. Working at Equinox in San Francisco in the early teens, she turned her focus to that population, then was asked to train other staff members — and then hit a wall: there was not much out there to help her learn more. So she refined her own program that she developed in those 15 years as a trainer by studying with physical therapists who had expertise in pelvic floor exercises.

As for that space, it was for years J. Crew — from 2010 till 2022 — and for a while Bar Cyrk was at 88 Thomas around the corner. The last word there was it was scheduled to be an “Italian tapas” restaurant.

The modern addition on top, designed by the late Thierry Despont, has been under construction since 2021. More on that soon.