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Manhattan City Guide: 31 Family Friendly Attractions
ByJennRecord March 11, 2025March 11, 2025
The island of Manhattan, one of the five boroughs in New York City, is home to close to two million people, thousands of hotels and restaurants, and tons of kid friendly activities. We’ve fortunate enough to live just a short drive from Manhattan and have enjoyed exploring many museums, theaters, sporting venues, restaurants, parks, historical sites, and cultural attractions over the past 15 years. We’ve finally put ALL of our Manhattan features in one post here!
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10 Ways to Explore the Museum of the City of New York in Manhattan
ByJennRecord December 3, 2024December 1, 2024
Located on Fifth Avenue on the Upper East Side of Manhattan and part of “Museum Mile”, the Museum of the City of New York was founded in 1923. Originally housed in Gracie Mansion (now the residence of the mayor of New York City) until the permanent museum was built in 1932, the museum’s collection has over three quarter of a million artifacts including photographs, costumes, paintings, sculptures, toys, and decorative arts. Permanent exhibits showcase New York City’s founding and evolution over four centuries and several rotating exhibits feature influential figures, movements, and seasonal celebrations. When we visited in December 2024, the annual Gingerbread NYC: The Great Borough Bake Off was in full swing- the annual event is a must see during the holiday season.
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10 Rainy Day Activities in Manhattan Teenagers Will Love
ByJennRecord April 4, 2023April 4, 2023
New York City, and specifically Manhattan, is a magical place any season and in any weather and for any age. But our recent storms in the Northeast inspired a reader to ask us for recommendations for rainy day activities in the Big Apple. And knowing that she has teen-aged kids, we offered suggestions that we thought would be most engaging for that age. This week, we’re sharing those 10 activities that will (in theory) especially appeal to the teenage crowd.
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City Guide: 25 Places in Manhattan Kids Will Love
ByJennRecord February 14, 2023February 14, 2023
We are fortunate to live an hour outside of New York City and we take advantage of our close proximity as much as possible. There are so many family friendly places in the 22 square miles of New York City that our list could potentially go into the hundreds! For this week, however, we’ll stick with 25 places we have explored over the past decade, including a few spots that spill over into the Bronx.
We’ll acknowledge some gaps in this list- the Metropolitan Museum of Art and American Museum of Natural History are missing from this list- but we have not been to some very popular spots in over a decade (all the more reason to rerun ASAP!) For organizational purposes, we’ve listed sites by location, starting with the Financial District and working on our way up island through the Upper East and West Sides all the way to the Bronx (we had to include a couple of our favorite spots, which happen to in the Bronx- see #23-25)
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The Paley Center for Media in Manhattan
ByJennRecord January 25, 2023January 25, 2023
First opened in 1976 as the Museum of Broadcasting, the Museum of Television and Radio changed names and moved to the heart of Midtown Manhattan in 1991, followed by another renaming and reopening as the Paley Center for Media in 2007 to honor William S. Paley. The owner of several prominent radio stations in the 1920s, William S. Paley created a larger network that became the CBS Network in the mid 20th century.
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Exploring General Grant National Memorial in New York City
ByJennRecord June 2, 2026June 2, 2026
This past week, we had the opportunity to explore another National Park Site in the city of New York: the General Grant National Memorial. Located in the Morningside Heights neighborhood of the Upper West Side, the Memorial honors Ulysses S. Grant, a decorated Civil War General of Union troops and the 18th American President, who established the first National Park (Yellowstone) and the Department of Justice and was a champion of the 15th Amendment, which gave African American men the right to vote.
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