N.Y. Sports Clubs Members Get New Bills From Struggling Gym (1)

Members of New York Sports Clubs, the fitness chain that warned it’s close to bankruptcy, woke this week to find that an automated monthly charge for dues has been fully reinstated as the gyms partially reopen.

The club’s owner, Town Sports International Inc., billed its members for full September dues despite the gyms’ limited operating hours and reduced capacity. The charges are drawing ire from some members and facing fresh scrutiny from the New York attorney general, who in April struck a deal forcing the company to credit thousands of members for the weeks they’d been barred from the ...