Things to Do in Lower Manhattan

Things to do in Lower Manhattan

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National Museum of the American Indian – Taíno Workshop (FREE)

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National Museum of the American Indian - Taíno Workshop (FREE)

 

Did you the National Museum of the American Indian hosts a series of family-friendly events and entry is free, 7 days a week? Visit the Smithsonian Museum and learn about the Taíno, who are one of the Indigenous peoples of the Caribbean. Join educators in the galleries to learn more about Taíno history, culture, and worldviews from museum specialist Jorge Estévez (Taíno). Through cultural materials and live demonstrations, Jorge facilitates discussion of the persistence and depth of Taíno lifeways and living traditions.

Date: Monday, September 24th (recurring every Monday!)

Time: 2:00 pm — 4:00 pm

Location: One Bowling Green (National Museum of the American Indian)

Age: All ages

Cost: Free

FiDi Insiders: While you’re there, stop by their ongoing imagiNATIONs Activity Center

For more information visit their website HERE!

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Free access to NYC museums with your library card!

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Discover your city with Culture Pass

 

New Yorkers officially have the best library cards in the nation. As a New York Public Library cardholder, you already know that your library card gives you access to a stunning variety of books, research materials, and so much more. And now, your library card gives you access to even more thanks to Culture Pass, a new service that allows cardholders to visit dozens of cultural institutions around the city for free. Through Culture Pass, you can reserve free passes to dozens of museums and cultural institutions around the city.

Simply visit their website HERE and select The New York Public Library, enter your library card barcode and pin, then choose from the variety of participating institutions and select when you’d like to visit. You can borrow passes for dates between two and three months in advance (depending on availability), and can have two pending reservations at any given time. After reserving a pass — for two or four people — you can print your pass at home or at your local library, or select the mobile option, and show the reservation confirmation on your phone.

Cultural institutions currently participating in Culture Pass including two downtown favorites,  Skyscraper Museum and Museum of Jewish Heritage-A Living Memorial to the Holocaust 

For more information, visit their website HERE

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New York City Math Festival at 28 Liberty Plaza (FREE)

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New York City Math Festival at 28 Liberty Plaza (FREE)
New York City Math Festival

 

Fosun Hosts Free Math Festival on 28 Liberty Plaza

FiDi Families welcomes the National Museum of Mathematics (MoMath) to 28 Liberty Plaza for the second annual New York City Math Festival. 

The full day of mathematical fun will feature hands-on math exhibits, entertaining mathematical games, intriguing puzzles, brain teasers. Among other performances, educator John Chase will reveal the secrets of mathematics and demonstrate a juggler’s ability to anticipate the path of a ball or club in space and time.

The New York City Math Festival will also feature:

  • Performances by mathematical mimes, Tim and Tanya Chartier, in a series of fun vignettes that illustrate the concepts of estimation, tiling, and infinity

  • Group constructions of giant sculptures, including the amazing rainbow-colored hyberbolic Hilbert’s Rainbow with mathematician Chaim Goodman-Straus and the six-foot tall geometric structure Goldberg Variations with mathematician David Reimann.  If you can thread a cable tie through a hole or count to six, you can help!

  • Formations of mathematical patterns using Math-on-a-Stick from the Minnesota State Fair with math educator, Chris Danielson

  • Engaging puzzles and brainteasers with the Julia Robinson Math Festival

FiDi Families Insiders: Enjoy complimentary bagels (while supplies last)

Date: Saturday, August 18th

Time: 10 am – 4 pm

Location: 28 Liberty Plaza

To learn more about the event and future events, please visit their website HERE

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Free Fridays at the South Street Seaport Museum

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Free Fridays at the South Street Seaport Museum

 

Enjoy free admission to the South Street Seaport Museum every Friday during the summer. Check out the exhibitions, historic ship tours, educational activities, artisan demos and much more. 

Date: Friday’s (recurring weekly through September 22, 2018)

Time: 3p – 7p

Location: 12 Fulton Street – South Street Seaport Museum 

Age: All ages

Fee: FREE 

For more information and to check out what is at the museum visit their website HERE.

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Family Fun Day at Governors Island

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Family Fun Day celebrates Governors Island’s green spaces and its playful attitude. This outdoor festival will feature live music, theatrical performances, arts and crafts, educational workshops, face painting, games, ice cream and other snacks, and a build-your-own playground.

Date: Saturday, July 15th

Time: 11:00 am – 4:00 pm

Location: Governors Island (Nolan Park)

Ages: All

Fee: Free

For more information, please visit their website HERE

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Storybook Reading at the National Museum of the American Indian

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Storybook Reading: Taking Care of Mother Earth

 

Listen to Taking Care of Mother Earth, a delightful story about the importance of reusing, recycling and reducing written by Leanne Flett Kruger (Cree/Metis) and illustrated by Marie-Micheline Hamelin. Visitors will make a related activity to take home

Date: Saturday, July 14th

Time: 1:00pm — 2:00pm

Location: One Bowling Green (National Museum of the American Indian)

Age: All ages

Cost: Free

Fidi Insiders: While you’re there, swing by their ongoing imagiNATIONs Activity Center

For more information visit their website HERE!

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Summer camp at The Yard – NYC’s only adventure playground!

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Welcome to play:groundNYC’s third year of summer camp!

 

Summer camp at The Yard - NYC's only adventure playground!
PARTNER

 

Our Governors Island play lot is a blank slate, ready to be transformed into a land of your own imagining. Work with new friends to bring big ideas to life using a wide array of materials, craft supplies, and basic hand tools. Never used a hammer before? No problem! Our playworkers are here to help you learn the skills you need.  Join us for a summer of unforgettable outdoor fun!

Each day at camp will be filled with plenty of opportunities for campers to plan their own adventures. Materials will be provided and supervised by trained playworkers in different areas of the playground.

Due to the self-directed nature of our camp, much of your child’s day will be (wonderfully) up to them! They will have opportunities to play with others, spend time alone, build, take apart, imagine, play in and with water, just relax, or anything else they can come up with! Your child will get dirty and may get small bumps, bruises, or scratches, as that is the nature of play.

They will also have the daily option to take a walk around Governors Island to explore other programs and parts of the island with our staff. We will take a lunch break and two snack breaks outside of the gates of the playground under the shade of trees across a small (car-less) road. This will help provide a chance for them to have a rest and re-energize. The playground itself provides partial shade under canopies and plenty of materials that they are free to use under the supervision of our staff who have been specially trained to work in this environment.

Drop off is at 8:30 am and pick up at 3:00 pm at the Battery Maritime Building (at 10 South Street on the corner of South and Whitehall Streets in Lower Manhattan, next to the Staten Island ferry terminal.)

Weekly sessions are $625 for an 8:30 am to 3 pm camp day.

Available Weeks 

(Enrollment is now open for eight 1 week sessions from July 9th through August 31st)

July 9 – 13 – SOLD OUT

July 16 – 20 – SOLD OUT

July 23 – 27 – GIRLS WEEK! – SOLD OUT

July 30 – August 3 – available

August 6 – 10 – available

August 13 – 17 – available

August 20 – 24 – available

August 27 – 31 – available

Please Note: We also offer an early bird discount and can provide two financial aid scholarships per week. There is a 10% discount for siblings and for campers registering for multiple weeks. **To receive the multiple week discount you must register for the multiple weeks within the same registration.**

Register for Summer camp HERE

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