18 places and programs for kids in and around Morningside Heights, Manhattan (11 free): playgrounds, music, sports. Includes Columbia University Science Honors Program and Morningside Park South Playground.
High schoolers with a strong interest in science spend Saturday mornings on Columbia's campus taking college-level courses in subjects across the sciences, math and engineering taught by university scientists. The program runs through the academic year.
The largest mausoleum in North America, overlooking the Hudson in Riverside Park, where Ulysses and Julia Grant are buried. Kids can explore the domed tomb, visitor center displays and the plaza's mosaic benches.
Morningside Park South Playground is a small city playground serving families in Morningside Heights, with equipment for climbing and sliding. It's an easy, no-cost outing for toddlers through grade-schoolers.
A small Morningside Heights pottery studio and shop offering kids and teen clay classes in hand-building and wheel work. Young potters make and glaze their own pieces over multi-week sessions.
This Morningside Heights bookstore has a large children's and toy section and hosts free weekly storytimes. Little ones gather to hear picture books read aloud, then browse books and games.
Talented young musicians audition into this Saturday program in Morningside Heights, where they get weekly private lessons plus theory, ear training, composition, orchestra and chorus. Students choose a classical or jazz track.
A Morningside Heights kids' gym offering gymnastics and ninja training for babies through school-age kids, plus weekday open play. Infants up to 6 months can take a free class.
The Upper West Side branch of HTD Boxing runs youth boxing classes for kids roughly 8 to 16. Young boxers learn technique in group classes, with youth class packages sold through the gym.
A Music Together site in the Morningside Gardens rec room where babies, toddlers and preschoolers make music alongside their grown-ups. Classes mix familiar and new songs with movement and instrument play.
Families meet at Broadway Presbyterian Church for Music Together classes where young children sing, dance and play instruments with their caregivers. The research-based program nurtures early rhythm and pitch through play.
Kids can pick out picture books, early readers and graphic novels, and the branch runs NYPL's free early-literacy story times for babies, toddlers and preschoolers. Near Columbia University, this branch serves neighborhood families with a children's section and after-school study space.
A long hillside park between 110th and 123rd Streets with two baseball fields and several basketball courts, plus handball courts at the north end. Kids from Harlem and Morningside Heights come for Little League games and pickup basketball.
Tucked into the streets of Morningside Heights, Claremont Playground (Riverside Park) offers kids a spot to play on climbing equipment and swings. The playground is maintained by NYC Parks and open to everyone.
This NYC Parks playground in Morningside Heights gives children a fenced place to climb, slide and let off steam. It is a handy neighborhood stop for young children and their caregivers.
Riverside Park Tot Lot at W 110th St is a small play area sized for toddlers and preschoolers, with low equipment that little ones can manage on their own. It sits inside Riverside Park, so caregivers can follow up with a stroll.
Riverside Park Tot Lot at W 112th St is a small play area sized for toddlers and preschoolers, with low equipment that little ones can manage on their own. It sits inside Riverside Park, so caregivers can follow up with a stroll.
Riverside Park Tot Lot at W 116th St is a small play area sized for toddlers and preschoolers, with low equipment that little ones can manage on their own. It sits inside Riverside Park, so caregivers can follow up with a stroll.
This NYC Parks playground in Morningside Heights gives children a fenced place to climb, slide and let off steam. It is a handy neighborhood stop for young children and their caregivers.
LittleGotham lists 18 places and programs for kids in Morningside Heights, Manhattan. The largest groups are 7 playgrounds, 3 music programs, 2 sports programs.
Yes. 11 of 18 are free to attend, including Morningside Park South Playground, General Grant National Memorial (Grant's Tomb), Book Culture on Broadway Storytime.
9 listings are indoors, such as Columbia University Science Honors Program, Manhattan School of Music Precollege, MUGI Pottery Studio.