Splash into Summer

What better way to spend a day than in a park close to home? Don’t forget to bring your towels!

Manhattan

This is a perfect place for a hot summer day! It’s filled with water activities that you and your children will love. The park features a play area consisting of a small water pool. The water also shoots out from spouts! Open all year from 8 A.M. to dusk. Water features are turned off in the winter.

Pier 84 Play Area

Science comes to life at this water play area! Your children can make sculptures spin by pumping water. Gates will rise and descend as they pump away opening up into a mini canal. This park is open from 6 A.M. to 1 A.M. throughout the year, but water features do not run in the winter season.

Teardrop Park

Located in Battery Park, this is a place you’ll want to revisit! It offers a water slide that your kids will enjoy. From beneath a collection of unusual rocks, water shoots into the air!

Heckscher Playground

Watch where you step or you might be standing on a jet! Water shoots through the air from the ground! Along with the jets on the floor, the passageways are filled with jets spraying water! There is a separate play area for younger ones that has gentle water sprayers. This part of the park is open from 7:30 A.M. to dusk.

Queens

South Oxford Park

This park not only has an AstroTurf field with a playground but this park has a tall sprinkler feature that will keep you cool on a hot summer day! To add a creative spin, the sprinkler theme shower is in the shape of cat tails!

Brooklyn

Prospect Park

The new LeFrak Center at Prospect Park will keep your children happy,busy, and wet! The old skating rink was transformed into a water play area. The LeFrak Center now includes 41 jets and a fountain that lights up at night! Along with the park, paddle boats will be back to explore the Prospect Park Lake.

Pier 6 Playground

Your children will love the Water Lab playground in Brooklyn Bridge Park. Filled with a water jet field and a water channel, you’re kids won’t want to leave! Along with the Water Lab, Pier 6 has an abundance of slides, swings, and a sandbox!

Bronx

Printers Park Playground

Take part in one of the Bronx’s greenest parks. Using recycled water from the watering of plants and trees through irrigation, the playgrounds are sprayed with the recycled water! The playground is named after Richard March Hoe, the inventor of the printing press.

The Music Institute of Long Island

Established in 1990, the Music Institute of Long Island (MILI) is a classical music school staffed by exceptional instructors from many of the most prestigious conservatories and graduate music schools in the United States and Europe. Long Island&rsquo;s foremost musical academies, its instrumental programs include violin, viola, cello, piano, flute, clarinet, saxophone and voice classes. MILI has been voted # 1 BEST MUSIC SCHOOL Consistently.&nbsp; They teach the Traditional, Suzuki, and ABRSM methods. Students participate in All-National, All-Eastern, All-State, youth orchestras, and score highly in NYSSMA and Royal Academy Music Festivals. First prize winners of competitions earn solos at Carnegie Hall and with orchestras. MILI offers Fall/Spring semesters plus Summer Sessions. Semesters include 15-17 weeks of private lessons, solo recitals with a final GALA Concert featuring chamber music. About the Directors: Carol &amp; Geri Kushner: The sisters are violinists, violists, chamber coaches &amp; performers. They believe in instilling the love of music, &nbsp;fostering proficiency, success, confidence &amp; believe all MILI students achieve success. Degrees BM, MM (+), K-12 certifications, attended Manhattan School of Music, Queens College &amp; Stonybrook University.They have been adjunct professors at Syracuse University, Aaron Copland School of Music Pre-College &amp; Five Towns Colleges, Stonybrook University &amp; have taught in L.I. public schools.

Asphalt Green

Asphalt Green&rsquo;s high-quality sports programs start at 4 months old. Two beautiful facilities in vibrant Manhattan neighborhoods provide the optimal space for children to learn the fundamentals, play for leisure, or compete at the highest level. As the leading sports and fitness facility in Manhattan, Asphalt Green&rsquo;s never-before- seen training methods focus on improving your mental and physical game. Whether participating in swim, soccer, flag football, martial arts, basketball, baseball, tennis, or volleyball, coaches instill values that set athletes up for success in life and bring out their full potential in sports.

This Is Cooperstown

Nicknamed America's hometown, Cooperstown has small-town charm and world-class attractions including the National Baseball Hall of Fame &amp; Museum, a must-see for fans of the game and the ultimate homage to America's Pastime. Discover fine, folk, and Native American art at Fenimore Art Museum, acclaimed and varied performances at the Glimmerglass Festival, craft beer at Brewery Ommegang and Red Shed Brewery, fresh cider from the Fly Creek Cider Mill, great restaurants, four-season events, and outdoor fun.