Recovery Is Culture. Manhattan's GRAE Standard — 89 Fifth Avenue, NYC
GRAE Wellness is a Recovery & Wellness Center built by Tim Grae — NYS Licensed Master Massage Therapist, Swedish Institute trained, and 20-year practitioner serving professional athletes, Broadway performers, and New Yorkers who demand more from their healing.
At 89 Fifth Avenue, recovery is not a luxury add-on. It is the standard.
Every session is designed to address the root — chronic tension, performance recovery, injury maintenance, and the kind of deep tissue work that actually changes how your body moves.
This space was built for you. The GRAE Standard is yours.
This Is Not a Spa.
This is Recovery.
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Recovery Starts Here
At GRAE Wellness, every recovery offering is designed to work the way your body actually heals — from the inside out. Infrared Sauna penetrates deep into muscle tissue to reduce inflammation and trigger cellular repair at the source. Compression Sleeve Therapy accelerates circulation, clears lactic acid, and restores the legs and arms that carry you through everything. Sports Stretching releases the tension patterns that build up from training, stress, and life — working the muscle, the fascia, and the joint together so your body can finally move the way it's supposed to.
Every Session
One Standard
Our licensed therapists don't work from a generic menu — they work from what they find, addressing the root of what you're carrying and building a session around what your body needs to genuinely recover. Whatever you've been holding, we have the protocol for it.
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Meet our Founder
Tim Grae
Tim Grae has spent 20 years learning one thing: your body doesn't lie.
It holds what you've been through. The stress you didn't process. The injury you worked around. The tension you stopped noticing because it became normal. Tim's job is to find it, work it, and help your body remember what it feels like to move without carrying all of that.
He grew up in Harlem with a simple belief: real wellness shouldn't belong to a zip code. Therapeutic care — the kind that actually heals — should be accessible to everybody.
Trained at the Swedish Institute of Manhattan in Eastern Medicine and licensed as a Master Massage Therapist, Tim founded GRAE Wellness in 2013 to put that belief into practice. In 2018, he made it a destination.
GRAE Wellness on Fifth Avenue sits in the heart of Manhattan as one of the only BIPOC-owned wellness centers in the area — a therapeutic space built without compromise, designed for anyone serious about their recovery, and proof that this level of care has never belonged to just one kind of person.
When you book with Tim, you're not getting a menu item. You're getting someone who will actually listen to what your body is telling him — and do something about it.
Some practitioners treat the symptom. Our therapists find the source.
That's the difference. That's The GRAE Standard.
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HIGHLY RECOMMENDED!!! This space is clean, beautiful and the staff treats you like family. They provide EVERYTHING you’ll need for holistic healing and recovery. So amazing to see a black owned and operated wellness establishment on 5th Ave!
Jasmine W.
I had a GREAT treatment from Tim. The music, the energy, the thought and care. I left feeling so light and replenished. Oh and the coffee is dope too!
Zabrina L.
Every experience I have at Grae Wellness surpasses my expectations!
Bari G.
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