Things to Do in Lower Manhattan

Things to do in Lower Manhattan

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Lego Build Event with FiDi Families and Habitat for Humanity

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Lego Build Event with FiDi Families and Habitat for Humanity

Join Habitat for Humanity New York City and FiDi Families at a special LEGO event at the Oculus! It’s never to early to teach your children the importance of home and philanthropy. We invite all of Habitat for Humanity’s “Little Builders” to use their imaginations and work together to build a LEGO house. 

Little builders will work in teams of four and create their LEGO houses. Prizes will be awarded to the best ones! We also will be offering light refreshments. Come and spend the day with us at our LEGO Build event!

Date: Sunday, April 29th [Read more…]

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“Bach at One” at St. Paul’s Chapel

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Trinity’s popular Bach at One series welcomes the addition of a marvelous new organ to St. Paul’s Chapel by pairing favorite cantatas with Bach’s magnificent Preludes and Fugues and Leipzig Chorales. Stop by on your lunch hour for performances praised by The New York Times for their “dramatic vigor,” as well as the “buoyant, elegantly shaped orchestral sound” and “lithe, immaculate and colorful singing of the chorus.”

Dates: Mondays through April 30 

Time: 1:00 pm

Location: 209 Broadway and Fulton Street (St. Paul’s Chapel of Trinity Church Wall Street)

Age: Best for adults, but children welcome

Cost: Free

For more information, please visit their website HERE!

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Music With Patrick Storytime at the New Amsterdam Library

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Silly Season Celebration Presented by Music with Patrick at the NYP Library

 

Join Mr. Patrick, his guitar and his silly puppet friends for a musical celebration of some old favories. We’ll be hip-hoppin’ with Humpty, cutting loose with Mother Goose, and getting down on Old MacDonald’s farm! Be ready for a super-fun time! 

Dates: Monday’s, April 2, 9, 16 & 23 

Time: 10:30am

Location: 9 Murray Street (New Amsterdam Library)

Age: Best for infants to 7 yrs old with a parent/caregiver

Cost: Free

For more information, please visit their website HERE!

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Genius: Studio Pop Up by National Geographic

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Visit Nat Geo’s Genius Studio and step directly into some of the most iconic movements of modern art!

  • Larger-than-life art installations and one-of-a-kind photo ops
  • Interactive digital art easels to create your own masterpiece
  • Transform your selfie into a work of art in a mirrored and immersive cubism room
  • Be part of an anamorphic cubist painting
  • Immerse yourself in the Blue and Rose Periods, and more

Genius Studio is inspired by the critically acclaimed series Genius: Picasso, starring Antonio Banderas as one of the 20th century’s most controversial artist, Pablo Picasso. Premiering April 24th at 9 pm (EST) on National Geographic, the 10-part series explores the muses, the art and the complicated man behind the masterpieces.

Dates & Times:
Thursday, April 19th:  1 pm – 7 pm
Friday, April 20th:  11 am – 6 pm
Saturday, April 21st & Sunday, April 22nd: 11 am – 7 pm

Location: 100 Avenue of the Americas

Age(s): All ages welcome

Cost: Free

For more information, visit their website HERE

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Yellow Sneaker Show at The Museum Of Jewish Heritage

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New Families, New Traditions

 

Families are invited to join the musical group Yellow Sneaker and their puppet pals. The concert will feature a Jewish holiday or value including: caring for the environment, friendship and love and kindness. Families, musicians and puppets will sing and learn together as a welcoming community.

Yellow Sneaker features the Brooklyn-based performers and teaching artists Ora and Yoshie Fruchter.

Date: Sunday, April 22nd

Time: 10:30 am

Location: 36 Battery Place – Museum of Jewish Heritage

Ages: Infants – 4 years old

Fee: Free

For more information, please visit here

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Earth Day Stories at 6 River Terrace

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Luann Adams tells, Why the Sky is Far Away & Other Marvelous Tales to Celebrate the Earth, Using props, visuals, music, and lots of audience participation, this delightful and thoughtful storyteller brings folktales & stories from around the world to life.

Date: Sunday, April 22nd

Time: 11:00am 

Location: 6 River Terrace – Battery Park City Parks

Fee: Free

Age: all ages

For more information, visit their website HERE

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Free Citi Bike Day Pass for Car Free Earth Day

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To celebrate the 3rd Annual Car Free Earth Day, Citi Bike and MasterCard have partnered to offer FREE Citi Bike Day Passes to riders this Saturday, April 21st.

From 9am-3pm Saturday, the NYC Department of Transportation will transform thirty blocks of Broadway from Times Square to Union Square into a bike and pedestrian paradise. The route will be filled with fitness classes, walking tours, dance performances, and of course, Citi Bikes! So grab your friends and get ready to ride for free, care-free, down car-free Broadway. We hope to see you there!

How do I get my Free Day Pass?
It’s easy! Just go to citibikenyc.com/carfreeday and enter your email.
We’ll send you all the details.

Date: Saturday, April 21st

Time: 9:00am – 3:00pm

Location: Thirty Blocks of car free streets on Broadway from Union Square to Times Square

Fee: Free bike pass

Age: all

For more information, visit their website HERE

 

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Family Fun “Building the Future” at Bright Horizons 90 Washington St.

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Teacher and infant

 

Join us for a morning of buildings, blocks, and bridges and discover fun and easy ways to incorporate STEM (science, technology, engineering, and math) into your child’s everyday life.
  • Build Cardboard Bridges
  • Create an Unsinkable Tin Foil Ship
  • Construct Tall or Small Marshmallow & Pretzel Towers
  • Use Your Imagination for Free Play with Blocks & Legos

Plus, enjoy refreshments, raffles, and fun for the whole family!

Date: Saturday, April 21st 

Time: 10:00am – 12:00pm

Location: 90 Washington, entrance on West St. (Bright Horizons)

Ages: Infants – 5 years old

Cost: Free, with RSVP HERE

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