Hot Skates

Good place to skate and relax. When I tied my skates up and started to roll on out to skate this guy I think was the manager kept watching me and everyone else as we skated. He was creepy. The rink also features not only quad skates but also orange rollerblades. Considering its closest one to me… it’s fine i liked it! The skate quality could be better though. It’s really not to shabby though

Who died in here?
I’m too picky! I’m the absolute worst!
This is my story:
**ques Law and Order’s DUN DUN**
With my entitled self, I expect a business place to be clean. Especially those that are sport oriented like gyms, skating rinks, skating rinks, SKATING RINKS. I stupidly want them to pay special attention to building hygiene.
On entering a business place I do not expect to feel sticky. Imagine after you’ve just had a nice shower, walking smack into a mouldy, uncomfortable smell! A smell only owner and staff can appreciate.
I expect business places to understand and empathise with us lowly folks who aren’t dog lovers. Now I’m clearly acting too big for my britches!
However I did not expect bring your beautiful, huge dog to work day (even as he was kept behind the counter). He (I’m sure it’s a male) barked and barked and barked scaring the ish out of these stupid people with a dog phobia.
Maybe I’ll return if I read a review or nine where they rave about how well you’ve cleaned up.
With my incredible sensibilities I clearly shouldn’t be writing reviews. Or maybe I should keep my unwarrented thoughts in the draft box.
The (uncomfortable) End.

Man listen… This might be the WORST skating rink I’ve ever been to, and I’ve been to more than I’d like to admit. Acknowledging that it was a Friday night I didn’t expect a large crowd and I was excited about that since it’s been a good 6 years since I last skated and wasn’t interested in all of ratchet Long Island seeing me bust my ass the 100 people there were a plus.
Anyway… The facts:
— It’s about $ 17 a person which is kinda steep for skating. (Really Bruh??)
— The skates I was given had clearly just been worn. How do I know? They were warm on the inside and the last persons feet still permeated the the insoles that weren’t even in the skates. (I’m not fond of my feet smelling like microwaved Frito’s, I gave them back.)
— The next pair were labeled size 12, I put them on and the right foot was my size but the left felt like an 11, plus there was no insoles again. Asking the dude for just one left skate he denied me. Apparently the skates are inseparable couples.
— Pair 3, size 11. They had no more 12’s I figured I could thug it out with the 11’s and skate lightly… WRONG!!! After 4 – 6 laps my toes threatened a mutiny if I didn’t «give them free» so I acquiesced to their demand. (Toes hate confined spaces.)
–Pair 4, size 12, final attempt… This pair was too big on both feet but I had done enough skate trading and wasn’t gonna go back for 5^th’s. My homegirl was already making me feel like less of a man.
–The floor was awful bruh! The planks were chipped, there was clearly very little maintenance given to the floor. It was apparent that they play roller hockey on that same floor and that’s why it was all chopped and screwed. I’m not the type to fall in a public setting my father didn’t raise no fallers, but they almost got me a few times. (Not cool bro. Let me be the reason I fall.)
I wanna be petty and complain about the music but I’m not petty so I won’t complain about the music.
Based on all these facts I give hot skates my lowest rating ever. Take into consideration that my homegirl and all the other people there seemed to be enjoying the night. This is only based on my experience and how I felt.
Just know how I feel is usually how everyone should feel.
(I’m humble)

Went there with my kids to find the place closed, when the wesite clearly says that they were going to be open and I drove there from the bronx. But that’s not even the bad part, when I walked in to find the place deserted and there were two large dogs barking like crazy and the old woman behind the glass was very nasty and rude for absolutely no reason. I had to contain myself because she was about to get cursed out. I will NEVER GO BACK. She don’t know how to respect others.

Upon your arrival you are greeted by this miserable old black haired lady. She has a very bad attitude towards her patrons. She is very dry and despite paying for your skates and use of the ring she made my entire party feel unwelcomed.
The music they played was house music nothing new we had to request for the music to be changed. If this lady is not removed from the desk they will lose alot of business.
I couldn’t help but feel as if we were bothering her if we asked a queston. like I’m a patron and you should respect that supporting your business
This place is old service is horrible and attitudes upon arrival leave alot to be desired.
I wouldn’t recommend this place to anyone.

I am writing this review from the rink here at Hot Skates. Better be careful because this floor is not the most even floor I’ve skated on (to say the least…). Hot skates gets such a low personal rating from me because the first thing I’ll look at when reviewing a place is the customer service. Or in this case, almost complete lack thereof.
We called beforehand to ask 2 questions before we came all the way from Brooklyn, but were hung up on right after the first. We called back and asked our other question before deciding to come here. We showed up and the place is quite a bit more «ghetto» than we’d anticipated, but «ghetto» had never scared us off. The woman at the front desk told us where to get skates and that the music and lights would be on at 3. (It was about 10 minutes ’till)
My fiancé went onto the rink thinking that it was totally okay – we thought the woman was implying that that would be ok to skate, just the music and lights would not be on until 3. All of a sudden a light appears over my fiancé and a voice calls over the loudspeaker that it’s not time to skate yet. Understandable – but much to our dismay as he starts heading off, «the voice» starts hurling out all these rude, unnecessary, sarcastic remarks such as «well obviously the lights and music are not on yet…» and other garbage like that.
We were shocked beyond belief and actually considered heading out – that was a total buzzkill – but decided against that and instead went and complained to management. The reason why this place got one star over the initial star Unilocal is nice enough to have us give is because the complaint was well received by management which we really appreciated.
Whereas we enjoyed ourselves after that, we will most likely not be coming back here, at least not for a LONG while. :-(

They have kids serving the food and the kitchen is absolutely disgusting and unsanitary idk how they even feed the kids that come here DO NOT EAT HERE!!! EVER!!! They should be shut down by the board of health!!!

Chill place to go listen to some old school music and do some roller skating. Place don’t look fancy at all but it does the job. Great experience.
Came here on a Saturday night. There is a live DJ playing old school jams after 10pm.
Didn’t eat the food there but it smelled really good.

Okay place to hang out but don’t expect much. This place was a little hard to find ms the location of it is questionable and sketchy. Parking is small so on a busy night get there early. We went on a Friday night which was 18 and up only after 10. It was 13 $ to get in whether you were skating or not and then 4 $ if you wanted to rent skates. THEY ONLY ACCEPT CASH! The inside is worn and can use some updating but the rink is a decent size. Their rental skates are pretty run down but like I said you can’t expect top class from a place like this. The snack bar I would probably stay away from, it doesn’t look like anything fresh is coming out of there. They have lockers that are 50 cents to rent but if you open up after you put your money in., you will have to put another 50 cents to lock it back up. If you are an inexperienced skater… Friday nights is not the night for you. I’m not that of a skater and didn’t know the better days and that night all the pro skaters were there going like 60 mph around the rink. I was so scared to get out there in fear of being ran over. Overall I had a good time

Hot skates is only good for families and young teens. I wouldn’t recommend it for adults and college students. The place needs some renovations as well.

This place is horrible! The management is beyond rude and everything you touch there is so grimeyy. It’s way over priced for the services they provide.
I’m never going back! Everything about this place is disgusting!!!

The best time ever!!! I had a blast! Everybody was over 21, the music was great, we actually stayed until 3am lol unexpectedly, but we we’re having so much fun! Everyone skating was courteous even if they were about to make you fall or vice versa. A boy made me fall, basically flew into me, flew over me, and bruise my knee pretty bad, but about 3 other guys were there to help me up, dust yourself off and keep skating :) great time! Oh bring cash!!!

Terrible. Horrendous ownership, nasty and rude

DISREPECTFUL!
The owner of this rink is unprofessional, disrespectful and will raise your blood pressure to say the least! I would not recommended this skating rink to anyone.

So I play in the roller league here. To be fair I haven’t played roller in other facilities but I have played ice in many others. The rink itself is pretty nice just really small and obviously designed for 4v4 not 5v5. The wood surface is nice but will eat up your stick tape/​wheels. My biggest issues with the place are there are no locker rooms. You are literally changing right next to the rink which I think is kind of weird. My other issue is they don’t really care to make sure their divisions are balanced skill wise. I play in the lowest division and expect to be playing with players with similar skill level. However, players from their higher levels will play in the lower division. I am not talking about 1 or 2 player, I am talking about a whole team of them. Why this is allowed is beyond me.

price: decent and reasonable!
skates:old and dingy i was disgusted, laces filthy!
food: tasted like everything was purchased at a 99 cents store, pizza was horrible, imitation cheese and all. ordered chkn fingers they said 20 mins… came back and they never put order in. to be expected if its teens running the snack bar!
i love the fact that they had such a big sitting area, but the carpet is so dirty!
music:Excellent, rink great! plexiglass need cleaning!

I went to hot skates with my children and other family members. Rude is an understatement. The woman (owner) at the window did not have any customer service skills and was totally out of order. I took my money and family else where.

…derby girls, don’t bother.
*SIGH*
I wish I had read the review by N S before visiting this place for open skate this Sunday afternoon. I am a roller derby girl hopeful, and this place was recommended in the Gotham Girls’ training forums as a place with open skate sessions where we could practice some of our skills.
At first I was excited because the rink is actually big enough to practice crossovers and other skills that require some space.
But…I felt like I was discriminated against the moment I stepped onto the rink wearing a full set of pads. Yes, the floor was quite crowded with children of all ages and their hovering parents, but I was certainly not skating recklessly or cutting anyone off as I skated around the rink (which is more than I can say for the employees working at the rink, who all appeared to be high school-​aged boys and were zooming in and out of everyone on their rollerblades). I hadn’t been skating for 5 minutes when I was asked to «slow down and stop weaving through people». Apparently they have a policy where you can’t skate faster than the flow of traffic. And the flow of traffic is literally a bunch of people stumbling in a somewhat forward direction.
So I sucked it up and skated around excruciatingly slowly for about an hour. My boyfriend, who was at the rink with me, said something to me, and I turned around to ask him to repeat himself because I didn’t quite hear him. So I was skating backwards for all of 3 seconds when one of the kids informed me that there is also no backwards skating allowed. WTH. I bet they would have had some beef with me practicing controlled lowerings, too.
After that I was practically in tears and so afraid of doing something «wrong» that I decided to leave. Which is a shame since it cost me $ 10.
Cross this off your list of potential practice spaces if you are an aspiring derby player.

Owww man. If your answering a phone, maybe you should not be rude, hmm. Maybe? Just wanted some info but the persn on the phone spoke to me as if I had peeepeeed in thier coffee.