Central Park is an 843-acre landscape attraction that offers a variety of entertaining activities for parents and kids. Animal lovers can visit the Central Park Zoo and Wildlife Center or the Children's Zoo and enjoy seeing over 130 different species of animals including monkeys, penguins, reptiles and polar bears. The kids can even pet animals at the Children's Zoo. Central Park harbors two skating rinks, a carousel, a public swimming pool, baseball fields and tennis courts to keep your family busy all day.
The Brooklyn Children's Museum offers spectacular galleries filled with more than 30,000 objects ranging from cultural artifacts such as sculptures and masks to natural science objects like fossils and mounted birds and mammals. The museum prides itself in continuously changing gallery exhibits to expose visitors to wide ranges of historical items. Children can view interactive displays that include games and puzzles to solve. Young artists can sketch and display their artwork at drawing stations placed throughout the exhibits.
The Tribeca Performing Arts Center can offer your family the chance to relax and enjoy musical performances, plays, puppetry, dances and concerts. Your children can enjoy ethnically and culturally diverse performances that can show them different artistic expressions found throughout the entire world. Events are constantly being produced to give your children ample opportunities to explore various artistic works in different media forms such as theater, dance and music.