Chelsea Piers' Central Brooklyn Outpost Opens Saturday

PROSPECT HEIGHTS, NY — Chelsea Piers' massive new Prospect Heights outpost opens Saturday including a pool, turf fields, Olympic-sized gymnastics center and ninja and parkour course.

The combined 103,000-square-foot field house and fitness center, which sits on Dean Street between Carlton and Vanderbilt avenues, will host a long-awaited opening party Saturday, when Brooklynites of all ages can give the field house a spin.

The field house opening will from 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m., and the next-door fitness center will host classes all opening day including pilates, yoga and cycling, with food from R+D Foods and next-door neighbor Van Leeuwen ice cream.

With weekly summer camps and day classes followed by after school and weekend classes in the fall, Chelsea Piers is meant to be Brooklynites' "home away from home," according to Chief Operating Officer Jessie Betts Dreyfuss.

"We've done our research, and we feel strongly that this facility will meet the high demand for family-friendly sports programming in Brooklyn,” said General Manager Erika White in a statement.

The field house and fitness center sit inside the massive Pacific Park development, which also includes nearly 800 apartments — 240 of which are listed as affordable housing asking 130 percent of area median income.

The Pacific Park development, previously called Atlantic Yards, also includes Barclays Center and commercial and retail space.

Chelsea Piers signed the lease for the massive Central Brooklyn plot on 2020, the New York Post reported. Chelsea Piers first moved into Brooklyn in 2018 with a fitness center on Schemerhorn Street between Nevin and Bond streets.

The launch will also mean the beginning of the Chelsea Piers Foundation, a pot that will reach $1 million to help "ensure underserved youth have access to and can participate in Chelsea Piers sports programming," a representative told Patch.