Enjoy a unique evening in Wagner Park as three QuietEvents DJs silently send booming beats through your personal headphones. Jam as evening turns to night with the ultimate NYC sunset view as a backdrop.
Date: Saturday, August 4th
Time: 2pm – 6pm
Location: Rockefeller Park
Fee: Free to borrow headphones, but deposit required.
Ages: All ages welcome
For more information, visit the website HERE
Legacy Women, the all-women drum collective, will rock our Saturday with some awesome Afro-Puerto Rican and Afro Dominican beats and song. Make your own shaker (for ages 3+) and play along! Music performance starts at 11:45am.
Date: Saturday, July 14th
Time: 11:00pm – 12:30pm
Location: Rockefeller Park
Ages: All ages welcome
Fee: Free!
For more information click here
Shakespeare’s tale of star-crossed lovers to Battery Park City. This dynamic adaption transforms Rockefeller Park into a bitterly divided Verona, where feuding families, revenge, love and a secret marriage lead to a tragic end in this fast-paced tour de force.
Date: Wednesday, June 27th — Saturday, June 30th
Time: 7:00pm
Location: Nelson A. Rockefeller Park in Battery Park (Warren Street)
Cost: Free
Ages: All ages welcome
For more information, visit their website HERE
School’s out of the summer! Celebrate at Community Field Day in Rockefeller Park. Learn to Double -Dutch, kick back with some ice cream and listen to beats by the one and only DJ D- Official. Engage in classic field day da games like potato-sack races, relays, and tug-of-war. Don’t miss out on face painting, lawn and water games and spinning the BPC wheel for prizes.
Date: Wednesday, June 27th
Time: 10:00am – 1:00pm
Location: Nelson A. Rockefeller Park in Battery Park (Warren Street)
Cost: Free
Ages: All ages welcome
For more information, visit their website HERE
Battery Park City invites the community to celebrate Governor Nelson Rockefeller when he signed the Battery Park City Authority Act on May 31, 1968.Bring a picnic dinner and celebrate on the lawns of Rockefeller Park with neighbors and special guests. Enjoy music by Bang on Can’s Asphalt Orchestra and the funky reggae beats of Brown Rice Family.
FiDi Families Insiders: The first 150 to register at registration@bpcparks.org will receive a free commemorative 50th Anniversary picnic blanket
Date: Thursday, May 31st
Time: 5:30pm
Location: Rockefeller Park
Age(s): All ages
Fee: Free!
For more information please visit their website HERE.
Calling all kids interested in learning basketball basics like dribbling and passing with an emphasis on fun. Kids are encouraged to have fun and play with their friends, with adjustable hoops to accommodate kids of all sizes. Fun is emphasized over competition. Led by Parks Programming leaders, children do drills and play games to improve their skills. Close-toed shoes required.
Date: Monday’s (through October, except 5/28, 9/3, 10/8)
Session 1: 2:45p – 3:15p for ages: 3 – 4 years old
Session 2: 3:30p – 4:15p for ages: 5 – 6 years old
Session 3: 4:30p – 5:15p for ages: 7 and older
Location: Basketball courts at Nelson A. Rockefeller Park (located between Warren & Murray)
Fee: Free
For more information, please visit their website HERE
Sylvan Winds joins us with a live telling of Prokofiev’s masterpiece, Peter and the Wolf, with its charming introduction of classical instruments and motifs. The BPC Parks Programming team will get things started with animal mask making for young artists. Art project appropriate for ages 3+. Music performance starts at 11:45am.
Date: Saturday, May 12th
Time: 11:00am – 12:30pm
Location: Nelson A. Rockefeller Park in Battery Park (Warren Street)
Cost: Free
Ages: All ages welcome
For more information, visit their website HERE
