It's no secret that this city can have four seasons in one day. Make lemonade during icky weather and head to one of these fun and kid-friendly indoor destinations in Brooklyn and beyond! If we missed a great spot, email us!
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Good Day Play Cafe is a favorite of local families with an indoor playground for kids ages 0-6 and a contemporary cafe with ample seating for caretakers in Park Slope! Kids have a blast in the clean, Montessori-inspired playspace featuring safe climbing structures, a slide and ball pit, imaginative play stations, sensory toys, and more! Caregivers can relax and recharge in the comfortable cafe featuring a full menu of gourmet coffees, fresh juices and nutritious smoothies, sandwiches, and finger foods. They offer 2-hour open play, memberships, classes, drop-in events, and private party packages for one-of-a-kind celebrations. Open daily 10am-5pm (Saturdays may differ for parties). Book now!
Dave & Buster's – Downtown Brooklyn (half price Wednesdays)
Chuck E. Cheese – Downtown Brooklyn
Space Club – Greenpoint + Fort Greene (coming soon to DUMBO)
Carnaby Club – DUMBO
Brooklyn Bridge Park Environmental Education Center – DUMBO
Jane’s Carousel – DUMBO
Randolph Beer (featuring arcade games)– DUMBO
Brooklyn Cat Cafe – Brooklyn Heights
Shining Smiles – Clinton Hill
Flying Apple – Bed Stuy
Twinkle Playspace – Williamsburg
Canopy – Williamsburg
Area 53 – Williamsburg
Play Kids – Greenpoint
The Play Lab – Greenpoint
PlayWell – Gowanus
Brooklearn – Carroll Gardens
Good Day Play Cafe – Park Slope 🌟
The Red Hook Arcade – Red Hook
Shipwrecked NYC – Red Hook
Urban Air Adventure Center – Sunset Park
CREA Interactivity at Industry City – Sunset Park
Brooklyn Children's Museum – Crown Heights
Fairy Tale Island – Bay Ridge
Kids 'n Action – Borough Park
New York Transit Museum – Boerum Hill
Museum of Food and Drink – DUMBO
Brooklyn Children's Museum – Crown Heights
Jewish Children's Museum – Crown Heights
Brooklyn Museum – Prospect Heights
New York Aquarium – Coney Island
Museum of Ice Cream – Nolita
Children's Museum of Manhattan – Upper West Side
American Museum of Natural History – Upper West Side
The Metropolitan Museum of Art – Upper East Side
Museum of the City of New York – Upper East Side
Museum of the Moving Image – Astoria
DiMenna Children's History Museum at the NY Historical Society – Upper West Side
Sugar Hill Children's Museum of Art & Storytelling – Harlem
New York Hall of Science – Flushing, Queens
Staten Island Children's Museum – Snug Harbor, Staten Island
Brooklyn Public Library branches (many host free kids classes and events):
- Central Library – Prospect Heights
- Greenpoint Library – Greenpoint
- Leonard Library – Williamsburg
- Williamsburgh Library – Williamsburg
- Bushwick Library – Bushwick
- Dekalb Library – Bushwick
- Macon Library – Bedford-Stuyvesant
- Brower Park Library at Brooklyn Children's Museum – Crown Heights
- Clinton Hill Library – Clinton Hill
- Walt Whitman Library – Fort Greene
- Adams Street Library – DUMBO
- Brooklyn Heights Library – Brooklyn Heights
- Pacific Library – Boerum Hill
- Carroll Gardens Library – Carroll Gardens
- Park Slope Library – Park Slope
- Red Hook Library – Red Hook
Books are Magic – Cobble Hill and Brooklyn Heights
McNally Jackson – Williamsburg and Downtown Brooklyn
Powerhouse Arena – DUMBO and Industry City
Greenlight Bookstore – Fort Greene
The Center for Fiction – Fort Greene
Unnameable Books – Prospect Heights
Barnes & Noble – Cobble Hill
Barnes & Noble – Park Slope
The Craft Studio – Boerum Hill
Le Meraviglie Art – Brooklyn Heights
Loop of the Loom – DUMBO
Brooklyn Renaissance Art Studio – Downtown Brooklyn
The Painted Pot – Park Slope
Private Picassos – Park Slope & Clinton Hill
PLAYDAY – Park Slope and Cobble Hill
ClayHouse Brooklyn – Cobble Hill
Little Makers Art Studio – Prospect Heights
Brooklyn Strategist – Carroll Gardens
Last Place on Earth – Greenpoint
Brooklyn Game Lab – Park Slope
Game Room at Industry City – Sunset Park
Greenpoint Toys – Greenpoint
Art of Play Curiosity Shop – Brooklyn Heights
Two Kids and a Dog – Dumbo
Area 53 – Williamsburg
Brooklyn Zoo – Williamsburg
Vital Climbing Gym – Williamsburg
Ferox Athletics – Greenpoint
Brooklyn Ninja Academy – Gowanus
Brooklyn Bouldering Project – Gowanus
Movement – Gowanus
Hapik Industry City – Sunset Park
Urban Air Adventure Center – Sunset Park
Gotham Gymnastics – Gowanus
Prospect Gymnastics – Bed Stuy and Ditmas Park
Joy Gymnastics at Industry City – Sunset Park
Brooklyn Bowl – Williamsburg
Dave & Buster's – Downtown Brooklyn
Area 53 – DUMBO (Mini Bowling)
Melody Lanes – Sunset Park
Bowlero at Chelsea Piers – Chelsea
Area 53 – DUMBO (Laser Tag) and Williamsburg (Paintball)
Bowlero at Chelsea Piers – Chelsea
Fun Station USA – Staten Island
Shipwrecked NYC – Red Hook
Jewish Children's Museum – Crown Heights
Golfzon Social – Downtown Brooklyn
Pingpod – Downtown Brooklyn
Pingpod – Williamsburg
Beat the Bomb Brooklyn – DUMBO
The Escape Game Brooklyn at City Point – Downtown Brooklyn
Brooklyn Escape Room – Sunset Park
MyssTic Rooms – Park Slope
Komnata Quest Brooklyn – Greenpoint
Shipwrecked – Red Hook
Alamo Drafthouse Cinema – Downtown Brooklyn
Nitehawk Cinema – Williamsburg and Park Slope
Cobble Hill Cinemas – Cobble Hill
Williamsburg Cinemas – Williamsburg
IPic Theater – Lower Manhattan
Film Forum – West Village
Time Out Market New York – DUMBO
Dekalb Market Hall – Downtown Brooklyn
Industry City – Sunset Park
Good Day Play Cafe – Park Slope
Ample Hill Creamery – Prospect Heights
Fairy Tale Island – Bay Ridge
Brookfield Place + Hudson Eats – Lower Manhattan
Hudson Yards – Midtown West
Area 53 – Williamsburg
LeFrak Center at Lakeside Prospect Park – Prospect Park (covered roof)
4Play Skate Lounge at Industry City – Sunset Park
SkyRink at Chelsea Piers – Chelsea
World Ice Arena – Flushing Meadows Park, Queens
American Dream and DreamWorks Waterpark – East Rutherford, NJ
iPlay America – Freehold, NJ
Medieval Times – Lyndhurst, NJ
Big Kahuna's Waterpark – West Berlin, NJ
The Kartrite – Monticello, NY
Kalahari Resorts – Pocono Manor, PA
Great Wolf Lodge – Scotrun, PA
Aquatopia Waterpark at Camelback Resort – Tannersville, PA
H20ooohh! at Split Rock Resort – Lake Harmony, PA
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