To Market, To Market!

037A2915 — Artists and Fleas at Chelsea Market

If you’re looking to step outside the storefront when it comes to city shopping, take your fam to one of NYC’s many markets. From local eats to arts and crafts to vintage treasures, it’s no risk, but high reward, when it comes to playing the (retail) markets!

Artists & Fleas: Every other week this marketplace, located in Chelsea Market, features new sellers to facilitate a constantly changing, diversified shopping experience. At any given time, the space hosts more than 30 vendors who participate in what’s called a “show-and-sell.” The location also offers access to Chelsea Market’s other attractions, including additional shopping and plenty of gourmet eats. artistsandfleas.com

The Brooklyn Flea: The Brooklyn Flea holds flea markets every weekend (in Fort Greene on Saturdays and in Williamsburg on Sundays). The curated collection of vendors offers a variety of vintage and locally made items including décor, gifts, clothes, and more, as well as larger items like furniture and antiques. There’s also plenty of local food choices on-hand for the whole family to try. brooklynflea.com

Brooklyn Kid’s Flea Market: Not only can you sell your child’s unused, outgrown, and forgotten items at this family-geared market, but you can buy new items at low prices as well. What’s great is that the goal of the Brooklyn Kid’s Flea Market is affordability for families. bkkidsflea.com

Fulton Stall Market: Following in the Seaport’s public market traditions, Fulton Stall Market (outdoors on the weekend, indoors during the week) gives local farmers and foodies a chance to share and see the best products that can be found in the New York area. The stalls of cheeses, cider, produce, and more are also spiced up with live music, local chef demonstrations, and cooking classes for the whole family. fultonstallmarket.com

GreenFlea Market: Ever felt like you were shopping a lot, without giving anything back? On Sundays stop by GreenFlea Market on West 77th Street, whose proceeds benefit public schools. The 30-year-old market, made possible by the NYC Department of Education, offers everything from handmade items to collectibles to artisan food stands. If you do make a purchase, it’ll benefit P.S. 87, P.S. 334, the Computer School, and P.S. 452. greenfleamarkets.com

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Advantage QuickStart Tennis

A proven teaching method, customized by age and ability for ages 3 and up. Special kid-sized racquets and playing area, plus slower-bouncing balls, make it fun from day one!

The Little Gym of Bay Ridge- Bensonhurst

At The Little Gym of Bay Ridge-Bensonhurt, we specialize in unique, educational classes that revolve around active play. We give children a safe and inspiring space to direct their energy, build confidence, and develop key skills. Explore the range of classes we offer at The Little Gym of Bay Ridge-Bensonhurst to find the one that&rsquo;s just right for your child.&nbsp;

The Language Workshop For Children

After offering both group and private lessons for many years and analyzing the results over&nbsp;time, The&nbsp;Language Workshop for&nbsp;Children, founded&nbsp;in1973, has decided&nbsp;to emphasize private remote lessons at shorter intervals.&nbsp;Our skilled educators&nbsp;will&nbsp;focus their attention exclusively on the&nbsp;unique needs, learning style, and interests of your child.&nbsp;This allows a&nbsp;bond&nbsp;to develop&nbsp;between teacher and student, which&nbsp;has been&nbsp;shown to&nbsp;drastically improve retention.&nbsp; OUR METHOD&nbsp; Developed by the pioneers of language education for children, our programs bring decades of&nbsp;experience to your living room with individualized, active language classes. Each lesson is based on proven methods and materials perfected to capture your&nbsp;child&rsquo;s attention during the ages when he/she absorbs information the fastest. &nbsp;&nbsp; While other online language classes rely on videos for passive learning, we deliver interactive, and engaging lessons with native-fluent teachers. In addition, all our teachers are certified in the Thibaut&nbsp;Technique which has been featured&nbsp;in the New York&nbsp;Times, the&nbsp;Wall Street Journal, and many other well-respected&nbsp;publications.&nbsp;&nbsp; Our short one-on-one lessons give kids the chance to focus, hear pronunciation clearly, and practice speaking in their target language.  THE PROCESS&nbsp; First, students have a short meeting with our Director&nbsp;Francois&nbsp;Thibaut, in&nbsp;English, with&nbsp;their parent(s)&nbsp;present.&nbsp;Mr. Thibaut&nbsp;will determine&nbsp;the best course of study, including&nbsp;class length and&nbsp;frequency, the&nbsp;right&nbsp;teacher, lesson&nbsp;format and materials (or action games for younger students.) Then the learning&nbsp;begins!&nbsp;Mr. Thibaut will continually check in on your child&rsquo;s learning to assure they are getting the most&nbsp;of&nbsp;their&nbsp;classes.&nbsp; OTHER OFFERINGS&nbsp; We can also help your child prepare for: the French subject tests for SAT, AP &amp; CLEP, the European DELF/DALF, the Canadian TEF and other standardized testing, college entry exams, studying or traveling abroad,&nbsp;cultural changes when moving abroad,&nbsp;and much more!&nbsp; &nbsp;