If you can make it there…10 things to see and do with kids in NYC (and Brooklyn) at Scary Mommy!
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Why not head over to Scary Mommy and check out The Scary Mommy Travel Guide for my recommendations for 1o Things to See and Do with Kids in NYC? I’ve included some classic sights, some sights more off the beaten path, and omitted the time when C had a screaming tantrum all the way to Rockefeller Center from my sister’s apartment and then fell asleep when we got to the tree. Also omitted how one of my favorite ways to see New York is sans-kids, with wine, and the boys tucked up at my parents’ house in Long Island.
UPDATE: I’ve also written 10 (More!) Things to Do with Kids in Brooklyn – because, you know, Manhattan is so limited.
The old neighborhood: Park Slope’s 14th Regiment Armory. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)
We have had so many fun visits to New York with our Manhattan-raised cousins, and though we live deep in Red Sox Nation, I’m raising C and T to think of the city not as a tourist destination, but as another hometown. Because NYC gets all the better on repeat visits. We’ve been the the Met several times, and tested the patience of security guards in many a wing:
This is very old! A couple of busters in the Greek and Roman Galleries at the Met.
Also featured: the Intrepid, the food of the Lower East Side, and Central Park, which could be an entry unto itself. And in fair Brooklyn: the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Prospect Park, and what’s Brooklyn without decent pizza? I couldn’t resist mentioning my old joint near my apartment in Park Slope: Pizza Plus. Whether that nice lady with the bouffant still works there I leave to you to discover.
Thank you to Scary Mommy for including me. I really like this site, and founder Jill Smokler’s refreshing nonjudgmental, honest, and very funny take on parenting. I wholeheartedly subscribe to the Scary Mommy Manifesto!
So, go to NYC with your kids! If they can behave there, they can behave anywhere!
(By the way, when I was researching this online, it reminded me of how many of our favorite NYC sites (like the Intrepid, and many areas of Brooklyn) are still recovering from Hurricane Sandy. So because I love New York, can I ask you to please join in and help the neighborhoods come back: at The Red Hook Initiative, Robin Hood, AmeriCares, or the American Red Cross. Thank you!)
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What great ideas! We haven’t taken our kids to NYC yet, but I long to. Bookmarking your SC post for future reference.
Thanks! I’m gearing up for another visit with the boys myself, and I can’t wait! They really love to go.
Oh man! I wish I’d known all that a week ago! We took the kids to NYC for Thanksgiving. Went to an awesome playground in Union Square Park, saw public art in Madison Square park. Heck, we even took them to see Mary Poppins on Broadway (my in-laws arranged that. I would not normally seek out an experience like Times Square on Black Friday). You know what they can’t stop talking about? The cab ride. We’ve got to get these kids out more.
Oh man! That reminds me of two other things I was going to put on the list but didn’t: the farmers market in Union Square, and Shake Shack at Madison Square Park! And the cabs, yes, those are definitely cool.
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