Hands-on learning

The Environmental Education Center is open for learning fun at Brooklyn Bridge Park, now through November.

Get to know Brooklyn Bridge Park with its 250-gallon aquarium filled with critters from the East River, a 10-foot scale model of Brooklyn Bridge Park, crafts, a reading corner, and so much more!

Parents and children will have a ball in the drop-in hours four afternoons per week.

Environmental Education Center, now through November. Tuesdays, Thursdays, Saturdays and Sundays, 3 to 5 pm. Free.

Brooklyn Bridge Park, Pier 6 [Atlantic Avenue at Furman Street in Brooklyn Heights, (718) 222–9939, www.brooklynbridgepark.org].

A parent and his child enjoy the education center at Brooklyn Bridge Park.
Alexa Hoyer