LOWER EAST SIDE — A new yoga studio wants to make yoga "really accessible" to the community — starting with its fees.
Drop-in classes start at just $5 at Sixth Street Yoga Junction, which opened last week on the third floor of the Sixth Street Community Center, as first reported by EV Grieve.
“We just want to make yoga really affordable and in the city, it’s getting really, really expensive,” co-founder Rikki Gunton told DNAinfo. Gunton and her business partners, Juan Gomez and Anna Ahlin-Marchi, are also yoga instructors who lead the classes, she said.
Hourlong classes cost $5, while the 75-minute sessions are $10, Gunton explained. Two classes each weekend are also donation-based.
The studio currently offers about two-dozen classes a week in a variety of styles, but the instructors hope to add even more — like classes conducted in Spanish — in the future, Gunton said.
For more information about the studio, including its class schedule, visit the website.
In other local business news:
► El Luchador, a Downtown taco joint that opened last year, is planning to open a second location at 182 Ludlow St. in 2016, said co-owner Kent Tam. Much of the menu will remain the same, but the new spot will be roughly half the size of the original South Street location, which offers additional seating in a vintage Airstream trailer.
Renovations are currently under way at the approximately 300-square-foot space, which housed a crêpe shop for two years before it closed last month, according to Bowery Boogie. Tam said he plans to apply for a beer-and-wine license for the eatery, which he expects to open in January.
► The iconic Katz’s Deli is opening a new location in Brooklyn, expanding for the first time since it moved to East Houston Street in 1917. The deli plans to serve its piled-high pastrami sandwiches at the DeKalb Market in Downtown Brooklyn next fall.
► Arepa Factory has opened in the former Cafe Pick Me Up space on Avenue A near East Ninth Street, according to Bedford + Bowery. The eatery serves Venezuelan food with a "New York-style" twist, an employee told DNAinfo last week.
