Mermaid Spa is quite the schlep for a shvitz, but there’s free parking when you get there.
Here’s what to know before you go to the best shvitzes in the city: Mermaid Spa Brian Zak/NY Post If you want to be massaged, surrounded by salt, beaten with oak leaves or chow down on blini or dumplings, we have the place for you - and the inside knowledge to make the most of it. These days, there are more ways to “take a shvitz,” as old-school heat worshippers call it, than ever. “If a banya couldn’t cure you, you’re terminally ill.” It’s a tangible sentiment at many of New York’s old and new bathhouses alike, where heat-seeking habitués seek an escape from winter in saunas, steam rooms and hot tubs. “There’s a saying in Russia,” says Alona Krug, owner of the Brooklyn Banya (the Russian word for steam bath).
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