Robert Reynolds

My family, including my 5 year old son, and I had a great time visiting here on Christmas Eve. The lines weren’t too bad and the weather wasn’t too cold so we lucked out! The main attraction was the Holiday Train show which was amazing. We also took a ride on the free shuttle bus around the entire property which was about a half hour ride. I look forward to coming back more to explore the grounds more fully in different seasons!

Excellent and fantastic architecture and art inside this iconic church. My whole family had a great visit, admiring the beauty within the walls. They told me a typical visit would be 45 minutes but we are free to stay as long as we like once we pay for the tickets. We ended up staying about 45 minutes in total. That’s about as long as you need.

Super fun playground for my 5 year old. Lots of stuff to do there. The water park is in a weird spot though. It’s in a sunken section, almost hidden and under trees. It seems like a better spot for that would be out in the open or in the sun. But the park is designed for kids of all abilities so it may be related to that. It truly is an inclusive park with the jungle gym even being wheelchair accessible which I’ve never seen before. My son is not disabled but even so he loves the jungle gym. It is a very neat park!

One of the coolest playgrounds visited to date. My 5 year old son loved it!! Lots of fun play structures to climb and play on. It even had a merry go round for kids to operate and propel through pedal or pushing power! Very cool! I’m so jealous I wish I was a kid again!

The art collection here was pretty cool. The best part however of this museum is the giant NYC map room which is a 3D map of the city in a gigantic room with a walkway above around the edge of the room. You look down and can see familiar landmarks such as Central Park, Bronx Zoo, Prospect Park, Coney Island, and it even has the twin towers there since this 3D map is from the 90s I believe. Very intricately detailed and such a cool experience walking around there. It’s also very cool and admission is free so you are free to enter and have a look around as much as you want. There is free parking around there too, multiple lots.
There was one exhibit of weird naked stuff that I don’t understand how they can think of it as art. Not so fun trying to get my 5 year old to stop looking at it!! It’s not even artistic nakedness. It’s like weird adult images. That exhibit wasn’t there last time I visited so I’m assuming it’s temporary but visitors can feel free to not visit that exhibit although it’s a little difficult as it’s in the middle of a huge room that you must walk through to access other exhibits.