32 places and programs for kids in and around Bay Ridge, Brooklyn (5 free): sports, music, dance. Includes Bay Ridge Library and Harbor Defense Museum.
Little ones and school-age kids in Bay Ridge can browse the picture-book and early-reader shelves at Bay Ridge Library, borrow games and use the computers after school. Current calendar offerings for kids include Storytime and Afterschool Playtime. It is one of the system's busiest branches and keeps books in several languages, including Spanish, Russian, Arabic and Chinese.
Housed in a stone fortification at Fort Hamilton near the Verrazzano Bridge, this free museum displays cannons, uniforms and weapons tied to the defense of New York Harbor. Adults need photo ID to enter the military post.
Students get one-on-one or small-group tutoring from certified tutors after an academic evaluation, with plans covering math, reading, writing, science and study skills. Older kids can prepare for SAT, ACT and other standardized tests.
Students work through a personalized plan built from an initial skills assessment, getting small-group help from instructors on everything from number sense to algebra and test prep. Kids can also bring school homework to get support during sessions.
Karate and kickboxing school with age-grouped kids classes: Cubs for preschoolers, Little Tigers (5–7), Tigers (8–12) and Teen Tigers. Kids build discipline, fitness and self-defense skills.
Kids complete short, leveled math and reading worksheets each day and visit the center on scheduled days to work under instructor guidance and get graded feedback. Because each child progresses by mastery rather than grade, the program works for young beginners and advanced students alike.
A Bay Ridge drop-in art studio where kids pick a project, from painting to crafts, and pay a small studio fee plus the cost of materials.
Kids from age 3 learn ballet and can add pointe, modern, tap, jazz, hip-hop, tumbling and musical theater. Semesters include 16 classes.
Bay Ridge studio in its 23rd season, teaching children from age two and a half in ballet, jazz, hip hop, tap, modern, contemporary and acro. Dancers can audition for its ballet, contemporary and hip hop companies, and an inclusive program welcomes dancers of all abilities.
A 3rd Avenue studio teaching jazz, tap, ballet, pointe, hip-hop and contemporary to kids 3 and up. Tuition is billed monthly.
Small-group kids tennis clinics on the public courts at John J. Carty Park. Coaches teach toddlers through teens with games and drills matched to their level.
Children and teens take Brazilian jiu-jitsu and Muay Thai kickboxing classes, along with self-defense instruction. Kids and teens have their own programs separate from the adult classes, with a focus on building discipline, focus and confidence.
Toddlers can start with Mommy & Me at age 1, and older kids take hip-hop, jazz, ballet, tap, lyrical and acro. Classes are billed monthly.
The provider's own Bay Ridge studio hosts Music Together classes where babies, toddlers and preschoolers sing, dance and play instruments with a caregiver. Families get the season's songs to play at home.
Music Together classes held in a Third Avenue performing arts studio, where young children and their grown-ups make music through songs, rhythm play and movement.
Popular soccer classes for toddlers through age 12 run in Brooklyn parks from Bay Ridge to Brooklyn Heights, grouped by age and skill.
Kids 2-18 take ballet, tap, jazz, contemporary, lyrical, hip-hop, acro and musical theater. The center also offers break-dancing classes.
A Bay Ridge science lab where kids rotate through hands-on experiment stations; Tiny Scientists (3-5) come with a caregiver while older kids can be dropped off. It also runs after-school, homeschool classes and camps.
A performing arts studio teaching ballet, tap, jazz, contemporary, hip-hop, acro and musical theater from 15 months to 18. Kids perform in annual shows.
Vinland Playground is a NYC Parks play area inside Shore Road Park, 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.
An after-school art program in Bay Ridge where elementary kids draw, paint, sculpt and make prints, with homework help and a snack built into the afternoon. Families can choose one to five days a week.
Millennium Playground offers a dedicated children's area in Leif Ericson Park near 5th Ave between 66th St and 67th St, where kids can climb and play on structures made for them. The layout includes ramped routes onto the structures and accessible swings, making it a good pick for families using wheelchairs or strollers. It is part of Leif Ericson Park, so families can follow playtime with a walk or picnic elsewhere in the park.
A Bay Ridge school with lessons in piano, violin, guitar, drums, flute, sax and voice, plus choir, rock band, dance and art classes.
Music Together classes for babies to 4-year-olds at a Bay Ridge studio, with singing, movement and instrument play that families continue at home with the songbook app.
LittleGotham lists 32 places and programs for kids in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. The largest groups are 9 sports programs, 6 music programs, 6 dance programs.
Yes. 5 of 32 are free to attend, including Bay Ridge Library, Harbor Defense Museum, Vinland Playground.
25 listings are indoors, such as Bay Ridge Library, Harbor Defense Museum, Huntington Learning Center Bay Ridge.