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New York apartment amenities just reached an insane new level

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The Club at Jackson Park will be capped by an outdoor pool.Tishman Speyer
This 45,000-square-foot amenity building will have a Jay Wright-curated gym featuring Peloton bikes.Tishman Speyer
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A basketball/volleyball court will stand on the Club's fourth floor.Tishman Speyer
The Club additionally features another pool, this one an indoor one with three lanes.Tishman Speyer
A nearly 2-acre park will connect the four buildings that comprise Jackson Park.Tishman Speyer
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This outdoor space will come with seating and grills.Tishman Speyer
A rendering of Jackson Park.Tishman Speyer
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The ongoing amenities race in residential housing — in which local developers deck out their buildings with over-the-top extras to lure greater residents — has reached a new height.

The massive 1,871-unit luxury Jackson Park rental in Long Island City, which launches leasing today for one of its three residential towers from $1,915/month, will include a separate five-story, 45,000-square-foot structure dedicated solely to amenities.

Rumblings and gossip about this massive space — a first of its kind to stand apart from a residential building — have circulated for some months, but nothing has been revealed or confirmed … until now.

Named the Club at Jackson Park, The Post got an exclusive look on what this expansive amenity building — connected to the three rental towers below ground — will include when it opens in spring 2018.

Fully decked out on the inside by design firm Clodagh, the building’s ground floor includes a lounge with a fireplace, a demonstration kitchen, private dining and conference rooms, and a gaming area with a golf simulator, a poker table, billiards and foosball. Just outside, there’s a patio with a wet bar and shuffleboard.

On the second level, a gym outfitted by trainer to the stars Jay Wright will have Peloton bikes ($1,995 a pop!), Gratz-brand Pilates tables and 21 weekly classes. One story up, there’s a spa with a sauna and steam rooms, a meditation lounge and a 75-foot indoor lap pool. Meanwhile, full-size basketball/volleyball and squash courts span the entire fourth floor.

On top, the roof deck, with landscape architecture by HMWhite, has an outdoor pool — yes, another pool — with a hot tub, cabanas, chaise lounges and tables.

In sum, Jackson Park has a whopping 120,000 square feet of indoor and outdoor amenities. Besides the Club building, there’s also a 1.6-acre park in the middle of the 4-acre site, as well as roof-level social spaces — including terraces and lounges — atop each of the residential buildings, which are designed by Mack Scogin Merrill Elam and Hill West architects.

The Club is referred to as the development’s “signature offering” by the developer, Tishman Speyer. Bundling the bulk of the project’s amenities into a single building allowed it to create a larger park. But there was another objective in mind, too.

“The goal is to provide a full suite of amenities that would appeal to as wide of a range [of renters] as we could,” says Erik Rose, Tishman Speyer’s managing director of residential development.

Eventually, there will be an annual fee to access the Club — which hasn’t yet been determined — but for now, early signers of 24-month leases will have the membership cost waived for one year.

But it begs the question as to whether there is such a thing as too many amenities, even for a housing complex of this scale. In luxury developments of this type, reports over the years have said, gyms and common spaces can lie empty. But developers still include them to impress prospective tenants and to compete for renters’ dollars.

“Because the rental market is softening, it is becoming the battle of the amenities,” a new-development expert tells The Post. “But I suspect they will be underutilized and this [over-amenitized spaces] will be a typical characteristic of rental developments coming online over the next few years.”

To make these spaces more appealing, Tishman Speyer made them multi-purpose. For instance, Rose says, instead of a dedicated screening room, there’s one that can be used as a co-working space during the day and a party room at night — which will also have a pull-down screen for movie events.

“We tried to be as strategic as possible,” says Rose.

Friday’s leasing launch is solely for the 671-unit 3 Jackson Park building. Studios there begin at $1,915, while four-bedrooms start at $7,310. The other two towers, 1 and 2 Jackson Park, aim for move-ins in the spring of 2018.

Citi Habitats New Developments is handling leasing.