All Entries Tagged With: "family-friendly"
Baked by Melissa – Pint Sized Cupcakes For Your Tasting Pleasure
This week, Baked by Melissa opened up a new location near Union Square. Baked by Melissa offers miniature-stuffed cupcakes the size of a quarter. Whether you are looking to satisfy a sweet tooth craving or stock up for a party, Baked by Melissa offers 9 flavors that are sure to tantalize your taste buds. Flavors [...]
Family Fun Plays and Activities This Holiday Season
The holidays are upon us, and the kids are off from school. Great fun indeed, until the cabin fever starts to set in. What to do? What to do? If you’re the New York Metro area you are in luck! This Holiday week is full of tons of things to do, and though the tourists [...]
A Charlie Brown Christmas With Jazz Trio…LIVE, The Brooklyn Lyceum
I am super excited to be part of this wonderful NYMetropolista family. To be given the opportunity to share with you any new, exciting, off the beaten path places,activities I come across on my many adventures with my family throughout New York City I am a little late with this review with just three more dates left [...]
Downtown Giants Youth Football League
When we lived in Madison, WI, my now 12 year old had discovered his love for football. Strangely enough, he, like his Dad, doesn’t follow football on television or sports magazines, but he loves playing the game. When the decision came about to move to New York City, my son had only one request: that [...]
NY’s Most Famous Street Turns 40
For 40 years Sesame Street, hidden in the heart of Astoria Queens has been secretly bringing a taste of New York into homes across the country. Even though the program has never outwardly claimed to take place in New York… The city savvy kids always knew that the answer to “How do you get to [...]
Discounts for Family Fun at The Big Apple Circus!
BELLO IS BACK! under the Big Apple Big Top performing breath-taking feats of humor in the theatrical focus of one ring with no seat more than 50 feet away! It seems like only yesterday that this daredevil clown made his hair-raising American circus debut in New York with the Big Apple Circus. He’s been a big [...]
MarvelFest NYC 2009: Costumes & Fun For Everyone
Tired of dressing up like a ghost or a ghoul for Halloween? If your answer is “yes”, then head down to Union Square for MarvelFest NYC ’09 and channel your inner superhero. On Wednesday, October 28, 2009, Marvel Comics will celebrate the launch of its newest motion comic, Astonishing X-Men, with events in and within [...]
Wilkens Fruit & Fir Farm – Pumpkins, Apples, Hayrides, Christmas Trees & Donuts?
Looking for something festive to do Upstate with the kids this weekend and the next and the next and the next? The Wilkens Fruit & Fir Farm in Yorktown Heights has it all — apples, pumpkins, Christmas trees and donuts! With a harvest season that begins in September, Wilkens Farm has a whopping twelve varieties [...]
The Toast of The Town: NYC Wine & Food Festival
Today begins NYC’s Wine and Food Festival, so if you are a foodie- you will not want to miss this event! Kicked off with BizBash’s Hors D’oevres house: The Art of Food Party on Thursday – You can begin your exploration of food with learning and tasting canapes and other fine bite sized food from [...]
Fall Family Fun at Terhune Orchards
If you’re looking for some family-friendly fall fun, look no further than Terhune Orchards in Princeton, NJ. Snaking through the tree-lined back roads near the esteemed university, you’ll feel fall envelope you as you drive past the colorful falling leaves. Then as you choose your parking lot on Cold Soil Road (deciding between the apple-picking [...]
