If you’re a parent or babysitter, you’re about to enter the gap between the end of camp and the beginning of school. Maybe you were smart enough to plan a trip, or maybe you’re trying to fill the time with local outings, which can cost as much as a vacation if you’re not careful. Here are some inexpensive ways to squeeze the most out of the season.

All summer, the city’s parks department hosts free family camping nights in different parks throughout the city, but if you want to […]

Our city’s mid-summer fever finally broke and dropped the temps down to a relatively frigid 80 degrees today: what a perfect week […]

Pack up the kids, call your friends in from the suburbs and start massaging your brain so it’s ready to soak in […]

Prospect Park keeps you fatted with a buffet of all-you-can-eat free summer goodness, from concerts to plays to all sorts of frisbee-rific, […]

Feel like you’re swimming in a school — er, pool — of outdoorsy free events? There’s plenty to dip and dive into, but […]

Prospect, McCarren, Fort Greene, Brooklyn Bridge and Herbert Von King parks will be hooked up with wifi thanks to AT&T by the end of summer.

In an unusual new program funded by REI through the National Audobon Society, New Yorkers can exchange Prospect Park volunteer time for recording hours in a state-of-the-art new sound studio in the park’s Audobon Center.

If you have a kid, feel like one, or just enjoy good theater, catch one of Shakespeare’s best in your own backyard […]

Our summer Google Calendar is getting slathered in digital ink real quick like: those nice folks at Celebrate Brooklyn! have just released […]