Flatbush Ave? More Like Fitness Ave

SoulCycle, the cultish spin fitness center, is scheduled to open a new location on the upper level of 342 Flatbush Avenue (between Sterling Place & 8th Avenue) in June. Their signature yellow stationary bikes will surely attract local fans of indoor cycling.

Meanwhile, on the same block at 350 Flatbush, is one-on-one personal training studio Pongo Power which opened a little over two years ago.

One block north at 330 Flatbush (between Sterling & Park Place), Crunch has been serving fitness-conscious locals for approximately five years.

Further north toward Barclays, another indoor cycling studio BYKlyn rolled into 258 Flatbush (between St. Marks Avenue & Prospect Place) back in 2014, while just a few doors away, fitness studio Orange Theory debuted at 248 Flatbush earlier this year in January.

Do Park Slope and Prospect Heights really have so many fitness fanatics that we require five places to work out within four blocks of each other?

Does this stretch of Flatbush Avenue between St. Marks Avenue and Grand Army Plaza really need so many gyms/fitness centers?