Published by Erica Edwards
Erica Edwards is a New York journalist and communications strategist and the founder of EJE Media, a Brooklyn firm that helps nonprofits and mission-driven leaders explain their work. She studied at the Craig Newmark Graduate School of Journalism at CUNY and has worked in newsrooms and public radio, at WNYC, the NYC Mayor's Office and the Bronx District Attorney's Office. She publishes New York Day Spas so anyone looking for a spa in the state can compare places on plain facts.
Co-published by Delroy Muschette
Delroy Muschette is a revenue engineer and co-founder of Momentum Client Acquisition Group in Putnam Valley, New York, which helps owner-operated businesses, med spas among them, find what is holding back their revenue before adding new tools. He has also led web and search work for clean energy companies in Westchester, first at Con Edison Clean Energy Businesses and then at RWE. He holds an MBA in information systems from Iona College and a BBA in accounting from Pace University. He builds and maintains New York Day Spas and its listing data.
Why this directory exists
I spent years in newsrooms and public offices learning how information reaches people, and how often it does not. Finding a day spa in New York is a small version of that problem. Search results are full of ads, and a star rating will not tell you whether a place has a sauna, offers facials or takes couples.
So this directory starts from the businesses themselves. Every listing comes from public business records, and the facts on each page come from what each spa says on its own website and public listing. Where a spa says nothing, the page tells you to call and ask. Being listed is free.
One thing worth knowing: New York licenses massage therapists through the State Education Department, and treatments such as injections and IV therapy need a medical license. This directory checks no one's license, so ask the spa, or use the state's license search, before you book.
How listings are vetted
Google files thousands of New York businesses as spas, and many of them are something else: nail bars, gyms, waxing studios, hair salons with a massage chair in the back. We start from every business filed as a day spa, spa or health spa with at least one review, then remove the ones that are closed, duplicated or no longer updated.
Then we read each business's own pages and note what it offers in plain terms: massage, facials, body treatments, sauna and steam, pools and hydrotherapy, couples rooms, spa day packages, med spa procedures and more. A business stays in the directory when it does spa work itself. When we could not find enough to say, the listing shows that honestly instead of guessing, and the owner can claim the listing to fill it in.
Right now that is 3,173 day spas in 227 New York cities, last refreshed 2026-10-27.
Owners can claim their listing for free. Every claim is checked by a person: a real local business, a matching email domain or a call to the number on the Google listing. Paid placements are marked as featured, premium or best-of wherever they appear.
Corrections and removals
If a listing is wrong, or you want your business removed, tell us. We answer within a week and rebuild the directory with the change.