Yes, you love your local playground.
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But it’s time to mix up your fall activities agenda.
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Escapely’s Escape the City experience ($60) is an outdoor escape room using a web-based app to guide the experience.
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(You don’t need to download anything.)
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With Brooklyn (Prospect Heights) and Central Park versions on offer, each is suitable for two to six players and designed for all ages — at least all who can walk about 1.5 miles.
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Participants will spend two to three hours searching for clues, solving puzzles and discovering the neighborhood as they visit landmarks, public art installations and other attractions.
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Spy glasses, magic 8 balls and more tools are included.
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, you’ll experience NYC like never before.
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Edge at Hudson Yards | 30 Hudson Yards
Check out the Sky Deck at the Edge — the highest such perch in the Western Hemisphere — where guests marvel at 360-degree views of Manhattan.
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The new city-inspired immersive installations include responsive lighting features and custom soundscapes.
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The best of the bunch, in our opinion, are Crystal Cave, complete with a 23-foot canopy of oversized crystals, and Infinity City, which shows 18 illuminated columns modeled after NYC skyscrapers shifting colors and making sounds based on movement.
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Families with kiddos 6 to 10 can check out the complimentary Explorer Challenge for quite the scavenger hunt.
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Lighting themes mimic each season.
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Tickets start at $34 per person.
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The celebration culminates with a Kidz Bop DJ with a “monster bash” dance party power hour.
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Starring Jim Vines and Carl Mercurio, kids are called onstage throughout the show to pull off incredible illusions.
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The Living Lab at Yale Peabody Museum | 170 Whitney Ave, New Haven, Conn.
This free and ongoing attraction, part of Yale University, is suitable for all ages and gives kids a chance to get up close and personal with natural history.
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Thoughtfully designed with touch-and-learn exhibits, plus butterflies, freshwater fish, turtles, colorful poison dart frogs and unexpected objects, little sleuths will leave with their curiosity riding high.
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An interactive exhibit that asks guests to investigate how many shades of blue exist in nature.
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Inspired by “The Legend of Sleepy Hollow,” this 45-minute interactive experience involves meetings with characters, including Katrina Van Tassel, Brom Bones, Hulda the Witch and Hans Van Ripper, gathering clues and reaching a verdict regarding what really happened to Ichabod Crane.
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The playful mystery, best for ages 8 and up, even includes a Headless Horseman cameo.
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, youngsters can get their wiggles out at this indoor play space while caregivers relax over coffee and café bites.
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There, children under six can engross themselves in the playhouses, tackle the climbing wall, zoom down slides, play at the train table or set up shop in the STEM area.
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Children under 1 go in for free when accompanied by a sibling with paid admission, which costs $26 per child for a two-hour session or $22 for sibling admission (adults enter for free).
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Part of a chain, which now includes five other New Jersey locations, the Riverdale outpost can get particularly crowded (or sell out) on rainy or cold days, so reservations are strongly encouraged.
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Children’s Museum of the East End | 376 Bridgehampton- Sag Harbor Turnpike, Bridgehampton, NY
This LI museum does not disappoint with the interactive events this fall.
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First up, there’s Big Truck Day on Sept. 26 from 10 a.m. to noon, an annual event where kids ages 2 through 10 can climb aboard vehicles and go wild for wheels ($30 per nonmember child; $19 per nonmember adult).
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Then, on Oct. 23, a $25 nonmember ticket grants you access to an afternoon of spooky crafts, games, prizes and dancing at the Halloween Bash from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. ($25 per nonmember child or adult.)
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This event is designed for kids 2 to 8, but for those with little ones 2 months through 16 months, Baby’s First Halloween from 10 a.m. to noon on Oct. 27 ($30 per nonmember) with singing, dancing and craft-making is the place to be.
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Weekly programming at CMEE includes Little Chefs, Sensory Play, the stART studio and music with Ms. Leah.
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The Aporia
