CUL DE SAC, the nonprofit that bills itself as New York City’s first outdoor community sauna, is “now hosting a four-month winter residency at Domino Park on the Williamsburg waterfront,” according to its website. Its booking site lists sessions from Nov. 9 through Feb. 21 on River Street between South 3rd and South 4th streets, Monday through Thursday from 4 to 9 p.m. and Saturday and Sunday from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m.
The residency depended on an all-or-nothing Kickstarter, and the campaign succeeded. It closed Oct. 29 with $35,286 pledged by 167 backers, passing its $35,000 goal, according to Kickstarter’s project data.
The site has two translucent saunas, outdoor cold showers and a pantry and hydration bar, the organization says. Sessions last 30 minutes, guided or unguided, with music from local and international guests and aromatic infusions at the top of each hour; guided sessions include a 20-minute meditation inside the sauna. Weekend days are billed as SWEAT, “a block party at an open-air bathhouse on the East River.” Single sessions are listed at $25. Packs of three sessions cost $60 and packs of five cost $90, and monthly memberships cost $119 for unlimited weeknight sessions or $189 for the founding tier, which is capped at 40 members and adds three weekend sessions and two guest passes. The booking site showed Wednesday, Nov. 11, sold out.
