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Massive underground spa and meditation space coming to Broadway and White
A 30-something restaurateur, digital marketing professional and model is converting 8000 square feet in what he says is an MTA tunnel from the 1840s on Broadway and White into a “sanctuary” — or a subterranean spa-slash-mediation space. I think it might be under 381 Broadway, on the northwest corner? It looks absolutely nuts! (Thanks to T. for spotting the news.)
It will be called Moonrise.
Brooklyn native Jack Liang has launched six restaurants, including Flippers, the super fluffy Japanese pancake spot that was on West Broadway in Soho, and The PokéSpots in Union Square and Nolita.
His new “wellness clubhouse” is designed to be a third space that functions without alcohol or athletics — a space for “presence, sobriety, and community.” The space will host wellness events, workshops and sober social gatherings.
Liang also has Lighthouse Cannabis — and somehow I missed that at Community Board 1’s Licensing Committee; it was back in 2024. I am guessing the two sites are connected?
More soon, I hope, when Liang can show me around. In the meantime, you can join the waitlist for membership here.
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I took a pop-up pilates class in this space in March. It’s really serene, calm, and has great energy. Can’t wait to see what Moonrise has to offer!
And I taught that pop-up Pilates class! If anyone wants to see the space, I’m teaching Puff Puff Pilates here again 5/17 & 5/31 at 11am. Registration is required. There’s also a new dispensary with studios (the old Wendy’s on Nassau) – Dankley FIDI. I teach Pialtes there 5/10 & 5/24.
How do you sign up!?
Hi Pam, a conversion of “1840s MTA tunnel” — how can that be accurate when 1st subway opened in 1904?!
This is what did not make sense to me!
a spec tunnel 😂
1870 – Alfred Beach built a pneumatic subway under Broadway in Tribeca.
I thought that was further down around Reade?
Yes, it was Warren/Broadway closer to City Hall, and not 1840s! https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/9/90/Beach_Pneumatic_plan.jpg/1920px-Beach_Pneumatic_plan.jpg
I knew about the Beach experimental tunnel, but the question remains: What is the tunnel that this club is using? As several online articles have mentioned, there are more underground structures than most people know about. This includes defunct subway stations, railroad tunnels, utility vaults, and so on. In any event, the current buildout looks like something that Frank Gehry might have designed.
No.
Not MTA. Not TA. Not BMT. Not Beach.
If link isn’t ok – search Puff Puff Pilates
Lynda I signed up for the 5/17 class. I’ll see you then!!!
Lynda I signed up for the 5/17 class. I’ll see you then!!!