This Week: Free Summer Outdoor Entertainment, Best Museum Exhibits for Kids, New Mommy Poppins Westchester Site
We were all about the new on Mommy Poppins this week. We kicked off a new neighborhood focus for the month, Ridgewood, Queens, we're hosting a new giveaway of a week of cooking camp and we launched our brand-new site Mommy Poppins Westchester. We're particularly excited about that last one since our Westchester readers had been begging for their own site for years. We love giving the people what they want! Now you can find out about the best things to do with kids throughout Westchester County and the Hudson Valley and sign up for the local newsletter.
Over on our Travel site, we rounded up Father's Day family vacation deals to destinations both near (Mystic, Connecticut) and far (the Bahamas). Of course you don't need to leave the city to do something special. Our Summer Fun Guide is filled with fun ideas for Father's Day and beyond, including a bunch of just-added posts like FREE outdoor kids' concerts and performance festivals, and the best new museum exhibits for families.
We made great progress on our Mommy Poppins App as well this week: Our IndieGoGo campaign is almost 30% funded. If we reach our goal the app will be FREE to all so please consider contributing—a donation as small as $2 truly makes a difference and if you give more you get some awesome rewards.
Here's what else we covered on the NYC site this week:
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Since public school students had Thursday off, we rounded up fun things to do on the holiday. Even though it has passed, you can try many of our ideas all summer long.
SummerStage, the River to River Festival, Celebrate Brooklyn! and other FREE performance fests kick off this month and we've got the scoop on the best offerings for kids and families at all of them.
We also rounded up all of the FREE summer concert series aimed specifically at young children. Click through to see if your favorite kindie rockers are playing.
Summer in the city also brings new museum exhibits and we picked out our top ten installations for families.
Our Staten Island blogger, Nataki, took a picturesque trip to the lovely historic Alice Austen House Museum with her tween.
Ridgewood is our neighborhood of the month and our Queens blogger, Kelly, kicked off our coverage with a list of the 20 best things to do with kids in the area.
We introduced our brand-new Westchester site to our readers.
As for this weekend, we hope you like making decisions because four of our favorite things to do for the entire month are happening: the art-filled Figment on Governors Island, the Big Apple Barbecue Block Party in Madison Square Park, the Egg Rolls & Egg Creams Festival on the Lower East Side and a no-cost concert by Dan Zanes and Elizabeth Mitchell in Battery Park.
