My 8 yrs old twin grandsons belong to this academy. I love the discipline. I love the respect they…read moreget from the coaches. I love the respect the players get from each other. It is not just basketball, they learn how to respect each other.

I just registered at Hoops Academy NYC for my kid and let me tell you, it has been THE BEST…read moreexperience. The primary focus of the youth basketball academy is not limited to the game; bringing life skills, discipline, and teamwork is where the fun and love for the game evolve. The coaches are truly dedicated to the profession and they know perfectly well how to work with kids of all ages and skill levels. The basketball training given to kids is structured and designed to develop the basics of the game, formulating strategies and ensuring physical fitness. My child has not only honed in basketball skills but also boost in confidence and sportsmanship. The culture of the academy is enriching and motivating, which makes it the right place for a young athlete to come of age and rise.If you are in need of a high-quality basketball academy in NYC, I will advise you to choose Hoops Academy NYC. That is exactly what they realize; that as much as kids need to be excelling in the game, they also need to succeed life outside the court.

Great program. My son has been playing football with the Titans for 4 years now and it had made him…read moreso confident. The team has taught him to take pride in his actions and to always strive for success. They take the time out to show him how to grow as a player and as a man. Great all around

GREAT coaching!! GREAT family vibe! My son recently joined the Brooklyn Titans 12u team. He was…read morefortunate enough to attend the 4-day overnight football camp. I was really nervous about letting him go away with the team because he's tiny, he had never played football before, and I wasn't sure how he would fit in with a team full of kids who had been playing together for 3-4 years. My fears were immediately quelled when we picked him up from the bus after camp had ended. Coach Moore is fantastic! He challenges and encourages the players to strive to be their best. He gives them feedback on ways to improve and he really breaks things down so they can understand. A true teacher! I was especially impressed when I learned the organization provides a bus to take players/families to/from games. This would certainly have been a FIVE star review if the certification process wasn't soooo long. (which may or may not be a reflection on the program) OVERALL: A wonderful local program with great coaches, mentors, and fantastic players/families. Highly recommend!

I can't say enough positive things about the club. They have helped my two boys 8 & 11 now grow…read moreand progress both in the pitch and as people. This club is more than a soccer team it is a community that strives to do its best for the families involved. I have watched my kids excel in soccer under their tutelage having the opportunities to play both locally and throughout the state as well as internationally at a tournament outside Barcelona! There has been no turnover in coaching staff since we started 4 years ago and they have navigated from a small 20-30 kid club to one whose numbers now are reaching over a thousand kids between the travel teams and developmental classes. They have navigated the growth seamlessly. I cannot say enough positive things about this club. Bottom line if you are looking for something more for your kid, look no further, the talent here on the level of the coaches and the players is second to none.

We enrolled our 3.5 year old daughter in the Tots Program because she loves to kick the ball…read morearound. We thought this club would make her love sports more but it has instead turned her off Soccer. On their FIRST class, they were told to tap and and kick the their own ball while chasing the coach around who went around in circles and zig zagged around. Not only were they supposed to chase the coach, while keeping their eye on the ball and kick the ball, they were also supposed to each grab a jersey off his waist. Keep in mind that these are 3-4 year olds and imagine the chaos. The classes are far more advanced and is not at all tailor made for 3-4 yr old kids. A couple of parents commented to the coach that the kids just can't follow this class and they were dismissed, saying that "well, SOME kids get it". True- some kids who were 4 did get it but it was definitely not designed for this age group. Whoever wrote the curriculum does not have kids and doesn't understand what their cognitive skills are at this age. They were given numbers to memorize at one point then they were split into groups so they can go after the ball when their number is called. Sounds fair but honestly the kids didn't even remember their number by the time they walked to separate sides. It was just chaos. I'm sad we even bothered because now our daughter refuses to play soccer. At all. She now hates it.

I've played in these leagues for over a year now, so it kind of hurts to leave a bad review since…read moremy time hasn't been completely awful. However, as some reviews have pointed out, the refs can be very bad and make very biased calls. I've been ran into full speed in the back on breakaways, challenges that could've seriously injured me, only for the ref to call it a fair challenge. Meanwhile, if I challenge someone shoulder to shoulder in a fair play, it's called a foul if my opponent flails enough and looks at the ref. If I were you, I'd avoid Bedford Armory and Lower East Side, where I had experiences with those bad refs. The Brooklyn Bridge one was ok maybe 30% of the time (literally gave me a yellow card for defending his call while ignoring the entire opposing team hollering at him for it). The officials tend to ref the same fields every week. You risk getting injured due to the random nature of their officiating and inability to control games. I'm not sure if it's due to improper training or bias towards certain groups of players and favor towards others as some have pointed out. Whatever it is, it is completely unacceptable for me personally. My dad tore his ACL playing in his adulthood -- I don't want that to happen to me. I may try one more season if a good discount ever rolls around again, but I think I'll see how the refs and players are like around the other NYC leagues afterwards before deciding to come back ever again. It is what it is. I don't expect this review will be received by ownership well, but idrc at this point. Everyone is entitled to their opinion. Please remember that before you crash out on this, Tarek.

Ok I didn't think I needed to actually say this but apparently I do. Tarek, I am not Yelp poster…read moreJohn D - that is not a fake account made by me and I'm not sure what lead you to believe I'd go through the lengths to do something like that. Please stop these assumptions and attempts to tarnish my reputation. I think you've already done enough. While it's unnecessary & futile to defend my character, I'll do it once more anyway. I decided to NOT leave an online review until now because I was still planning to play in the league. Yes we've had disagreements but I wasn't going to let that keep me from playing soccer. I enjoyed the location / day of week & didn't need to be a sore loser about you clearly not being a huge fan of me. But it seems you had another idea in mind and it appears you attempted to ban the team from joining again (as we planned) based off of some pretty unfair reasoning and false accusation. It seems you have tried to punish them for continuing their relationship with me. It appears you were successful in forcing them to choose - me or continue playing soccer at that location on Sundays. I have decide to speak up now after learning of what happened and hearing what you've been telling people that I've done - I feel others have the right to know how players like me are being treated behind the scenes. I'm going to go ahead and attach the email that Tarek has referenced & some screenshots for full transparency, along with the following clarifications to his claims for anyone still reading all of this nonsense: - Our team did show up for our last game during the downpour. I was there. I walked to the field with a sub for your team actually, a blonde woman, from Russia or Switzerland I believe? We laughed at the waterfall of water coming from the bridge underpass - it broke my umbrella. She asked if I was on [YOUR TEAM NAME] and I said no. She said someone from your team, a coworker of hers, had reached out the night before and asked if she could help because the team didn't have enough players. I met my captains at the sidelines and they let me know they had just forfeited - we were only able to get 4 of our roster there with the crazy weather, that much of what you said is true. The field was already flooding at that point. The rest of the team assumed the game would be rescheduled and didn't want to make the walk from the train in the downpour. It never was. - I did not demand field support in an email to you, the ball comment was an off hand comment. A small part in a larger email that was addressing the increasingly shorter & shorter game times we were experiencing. (Context: If D1 & D2 games before us ran long - our D3 games would be shortened on the fly to make up for the time.) I get that my emails must have been very annoying to you but you have misrepresented how I acted & how you had actually replied. Throughout our emails you had always implied that sharing my feedback was helpful to the league as it was growing. I had thought that I would be allowed to voice these concerns field side as well but I learned the hard way that I should NOT have talked to you right after you had just finished playing. So Let's wrap this up & move to that. - I feel your recall is incorrect regarding our field side interaction. I wasn't angry that we lost (we lost 90% of our games, we got used to it fast). I was angry that several times during the game, you made calls and stopped play on behalf of the ref. At one point in the heat of competition, you threw the ball off the field so our team had to chase the ball down. I felt you abused your powers as an owner to advantage yourself & your team. After the game - I asked if I could speak to you and you said yes. I tried to talk but you realized I was voicing a complaint and cut me off right away. I tried to continue so you repeated "just find another league" over and over, louder and louder, until teammates of yours surrounded me and told me to walk away. I apologized, admitted it was stupid to try to talk to you then and walked away.

I went to the cafe here and ordered two acai bowls. They charged me for the bowls. After waiting…read morefive minutes, the guy running the cafe told me that he couldn't find any bowls so he couldn't serve me. I immediately asked for a refund. He couldn't run refunds on the cash register, the gym didn't know how to give me a refund, and I gave up the other 20 minutes of my lunch break waiting for them to call the manager and decide they couldn't refund me until the end of the day. I told them either give me the food I ordered or my money back and they said they couldn't do either. Straight up stole from me.

i'm not surprised all the reviews here are one star. life time presents itself as an upscale…read morefacility, and at $330+ per month it fits the bill, but in reality it's run with the lowest standards i've ever encountered at a gym (and over the years i've been a member at equinox and chelsea piers). the staff is completely disorganized and didn't show up for the tour I had scheduled when I first considered joining. instead of trying to make it right, the membership concierge, Darrell Ross, refused to reschedule the tour for me or even answer a simple question I had about classes. i remained utterly tactful and polite throughout our exchange--I didn't even complain about being stood up for the tour--and yet his response was truly and bizarrely rude. I also wrote to the manager, Emiliano Tramontozzi, asking for help but he hasn't responded as of yet either. it's a nice place but no amount of amenities can justify the trashy treatment and lack of basic hospitality. you can go elsewhere for a much better experience--and you'll probably pay less too!

This is a phenomenal premier basketball program for girls . It is great to see all the great…read morefemale teams in the tri-state area . The games are competitive as these young ladies have game!! I truly enjoy stopping by to see all the great talent in the borough I love Brooklyn. What a great program for JR and HS aged girls!

Great customer service. Would definitely consider enrolling if it wasn't for timing conflicts.read more

Sonic Soccer is a great organization that focuses on developing kids soccer skills through the…read moreimportance of fundamentals. The coaches create a great learning environment with positive attitudes, skills of their own, and focus on each individual child. Ranging in ages 3-10 years old, each class is centered on the skills for each age appropriate ability level. The owner, Coach Sonic and his gregarious team of coaches knows all of their kids names, and is eager to help with each students development. Growing up locally, and starting his soccer career here in Brooklyn, he has started up a wonderful organization to inspire the next generation of urban soccer players.

I previously came here for a Yelp event and had such a great time that I decided to return with…read moresome family who are ping pong enthusiasts. The Fort Greene location is brand new and super clean, with three tables and a private pod available for rent, and located two blocks away from the Atlantic Av-Barclay station (2/3/4/5/B/D/N/Q/R) and four blocks away from the Fulton St (G) and Lafayette Av (A/C) stations which makes it very convenient to travel to. Everything is done through the app, from reserving a table to paying for snacks to opening the door. For a table in a shared space (open pod) it's about $10/30min during off-peak hours and $15/30min during peak hours. Sometimes they have reduced rates for certain tables; it's a little weird to navigate on the app so I wish it was a little clearer.

First time visiting a ping pod! It was a fun last-minute activity to do on a rainy day. We went in…read moreat off-peak and thought the price was pretty good to play for a few hours. Clean and neat inside, although I didn't see any workers so I'm not sure what you'd do if you need help with anything. They also have a spacious bathroom/changing room.

This started as a mission to find a Hash (expat international) group meetup somewhere in this vast…read morepark, but since we didn't connect it turned out to be a "walk in the park" and pure joy. Central Park may be in a more convenient location for tourists, but Prospect Park is a divine place to explore, with plenty of twists and turns, and what the heck is that? Lots to look at! The other thing I liked was that we found free on-street parking right across the street on Ocean Avenue. Amazingly we also found parking right by Central Park as well. (This trip was a superb driving one) Even hanging out in the van, having a cold one at the parking spot was a fun experience. There's even a cafe in the middle of the park that is super nice! Worth seeking out when visiting Brooklyn.

One of my favorite things about Brooklyn is Prospect Park. Even though it's large, as you can…read moreimagine it gets busy on the weekends. Lots of families, etc. Still, it can be an enjoyable time. I do prefer weekday visits myself. The walking/bike paths are a great way to see the park in its entirety. Plenty of green space for a picnic, playing frisbee, etc. Playground and splash pads as well. Of course, I can't forget the lake with all of the ducks splashing about. It's really a wonderful way to spend a day in Brooklyn, getting away from it all.