by NYC Parks
Kids head to Murray Playground in Long Island City to climb, explore and run around on equipment built for children. Transfer platforms and ground-level play pieces give kids with limited mobility ways to get onto and around the equipment. In warm weather the spray showers turn a playground visit into an easy water-play outing.
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Open dawn to dusk; spray showers run in summer on hot days
Free; no registration
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Ages 0–12.
Free; no registration
Open dawn to dusk; spray showers run in summer on hot days
11-01 45th Road, 11101, in Long Island City, Queens.
No. Murray Playground is outdoors, so plan for weather, sunscreen and water.
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