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Join us for Storytime in the children's area. Listen to stories, songs, rhymes in the company of other toddlers. This program is free and open to kids ages 0-5, their families and caregivers with general seating. Pre-registration does not guarantee a seat.

Join us for stories, songs, crafts, and play with Ms. Shane! All ages welcome! Children under 12 must be accompanied by an adult. Masks required.

This class allows students to complete 20 hours of total class preparation before the official exams take place. Course Materials: 1) Students must purchase Curvebreakers' SAT Strategy Book, A New Approach to Deconstruct and Destroy the SAT. Currently, the book is free on Amazon with Kindle Unlimited. The Kindle version can be purchased for $3.99...

Join 92Y Athletics for a fun-filled, socially distanced evening of fun and plenty of time for unstructured and supervised socialization time! Drop your child off and enjoy a Parents Night Out! Children have access to our state-of-the-art facility for specialized instruction with professional 92Y coaches and much more! Please ensure that your child...

Prospect Park provides such a superabundance of wild foods in mid-spring, it's hard to cover them all in just four hours. We begin with spicy hedge mustard, corn-flavored chickweed, and spinach-flavored lamb's quarters, all growing near the park's Grand Army Plaza entrance. Then we move along to goutweed, taking over along the path near the Vale...

June 6 This well-known greenway, with open, sunny habitats, wooded sections, thickets, and edges, is ideal for finding the best edible wild plants of early spring, and this tour, led by Violet Brill, will give you the best opportunity to learn about, collect, and enjoy some of our best common, tasty, renewable species. In open, sunny areas, we'll...

Central Park provides a great window into the world of wild foods in  early spring. Making a meal with these plants is simple at this time of the year. For an appetizer, try simmering field garlic bulbs in diluted vinegar with Italian seasonings, to make an outstanding pickle. It's the peak of the season for wild salad greens, and we'll be finding...

This class allows students to complete 20 hours of total class preparation before the official exam takes place. Class Benefits: Students may take an additional 2 free diagnostic practice exams that can be scheduled at your convenience (not a part of the class). Course Materials: Students must purchase Curvebreakers' ACT Strategy Book,...

The sunny borders between woodlands and the parking lot provide prime habitat for various wild herbs and greens. We'll look for sheep sorrel and wood sorrel, with their wonderful lemony flavors, plus goutweed, which tastes like parsley, carrots, and celery. Poor man's pepper, a common, delicious wild mustard, also appears in great abundance in sunny...

Forest Park is one of the best places for foragers in mid-spring. Get lost in this vast park, and you'll have plenty to eat (that is, if you can distinguish the gourmet plants from the deadly ones.) It boasts a large, mature, secondary growth forest, trail edges, thickets, and cultivated areas—all overflowing with wild plants, and Violet Brill,...

The seashore is always a special place for edible wild plants, and autumn is no exception. In addition to the beach habitat and adjacent fields and thickets, it's got cultivated areas, wetlands, and woodland trails. The most spectacular find in the sand within sight of the ocean is sea rocket, is a pungent, succulent mustard found nowhere else, and...

This vastly underappreciated park offers all the best wild foods of the rich seashore habitat, a great place for everyone to celebrate the peak of spring. The sandy soil is poor, limiting tree growth, but benefiting plants that can take advantage of the full sunlight, nutrient-poor soil, and relative lack of competition, and Violet Brill, America's...

This large wetland park offers vast foraging opportunities, even as winter approaches. We begin with a small, young woodland. It contains large quantities of field garlic, with leaves like chives and bulbs like onions or garlic. There's also garlic mustard, a garlic-flavored mustard green with a taproot that tastes like horseradish. Nearby grows sassafras,...

Inwood Hill Park is one of the best places for foraging in late fall. The city's hilliest park, with a large, mature forest, meadows, thickets, and cultivated areas, it's loaded with wild plants, even in late fall. This is the time to search for roots. Here are some we'll be finding: Burdock, an invasive, Eurasian, expensive, detoxifying herb sold...

Our core philosophy is to teach children skills that they can use in their normal everyday life. We help develop a child’s core athleticism and physical skills through basic gymnastics and martial art techniques using music, skill-based activities and games in fun, safe and nurturing environment. Kids are introduced to the basics of karate including...