Kids Guide NYC
NYC's Most Trusted Guide To Family Activities, Pop Ups, And Things To Do
Personally vetted places to go with kids — free days, playgrounds, museums, day trips and what's on this season.
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Every place here has been visited, tested, and vetted with our own kids.
Kids Guide NYC is written by Adina Kayton, an NYC mom of three with a Master's in Early Childhood Special Education. Hours, prices and access details are verified before they go up — and every recommendation is filtered through what actually works for real children, not what photographs well.
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Top guides
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Getting there
Stroller-friendly subway trips
Tell us where you're starting and where you're headed, and we'll help you plan a route that sticks to elevator-accessible stations — so you're not carrying a stroller up two flights with a toddler on your hip.
Please check before you goElevator and escalator status changes hour to hour. Kids Guide NYC does not control MTA equipment outages — always confirm on the MTA live elevator & escalator status page before heading out.
The map
Family destinations across the city
Plan routes in transit mode and turn on “wheelchair accessible” under route options — the same step-free routes that work for strollers.
The Weekly List
One email a week. What's on, what's free, what's worth it.
Written by an NYC mom of three — no roundups we haven't done ourselves.