by NYC Parks
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Rufus King Park Playground is a NYC Parks play area in Jamaica, with climbing structures and play equipment scaled for kids. Transfer platforms and ground-level play pieces give kids with limited mobility ways to get onto and around the equipment. On hot summer days the spray showers switch on, and kids run through the water to cool off.
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
Rufus King Park, Jamaica Ave & 153rd St, 11432, Queens.
No. Rufus King Park Playground is outdoors, so plan for weather, sunscreen and water.
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