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A Bed-Stuy gym says it does not tolerate harassment. A longtime member says she was told she ‘was not the first’ and treated like the angry Black woman

A member at a Bed-Stuy PureGym says she reported harassment, was told she 'was not the first' to complain, and was treated like a problem.

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A Bed-Stuy gym says it does not tolerate harassment. A longtime member says she was told she ‘was not the first’ and treated like the angry Black woman

A member at a Bed-Stuy PureGym says she reported harassment, was told she 'was not the first' to complain, and was treated like a problem.

A Bed-Stuy gym says it does not tolerate harassment. A longtime member says she was told she ‘was not the first’ and treated like the angry Black woman
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PureGym’s corporate line is that it does not tolerate harassment. A longtime member at its Bed-Stuy location says what its front desk actually did was tell her she was not the first woman to complain about the same man, and then treat her like a problem.

Tanya Ridley, an MTA conductor and Transport Workers Union Local 100 member, says she was sexually harassed by a male member at the PureGym on Fulton Street . When she reported…

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