Winter Break and things to do with your kids.

Now that the kids got off for "Winter Break", here are a few thing to do with them.

• Kids Week at the Intrepid (Midtown West) Saturday, February 15-Sunday, February 23 2014. http://www.intrepidmuseum.org/

Intrepid Sea Air & Space Museum is hosting special activities and entertainment for families, everyday the kids are off from school.

Activities are free with admission, In advance $22 for adults, $17 for children 7-17 and $10 for ages 3-6, at the door$2 more per person. They are having, buy a general admission, get one free deal going on.

                           

• BAMkids Film Festival (Fort Greene) Saturday, February 22 and Sunday February 23. http://www.bam.org/kids/2014/bam-kids-film-festival

Catch more than 70 titles from around the world at BAM Rose Cinemas, In addition to short programs for all age ranges, and a hand-full of full-length films, two NYC based acts will be performing live in BAM Cafe Upstairs.

Tickets are on sale now and tend to sell out, so buying in advance is a must. $13 adults, $9 for children under 13, per screening or performance.  

• Brooklyn Botanic Garden (Crown Heights) during "Discovery Week" Monday February 17 at 10:30 am to 12:30 PM. Repeating everyday through Friday, February 21, 2014. 

Pot your own plant to take home, FREE. 

http://www.bbg.org/visit/event/february_break_discovery_week

• LeFrak Center at Lakeside Prospect Park. http://www.lakesideprospectpark.com/

Twirl on the ice at the brand new rink in Prospect Park. http://www.lakesideprospectpark.com/

 LeFrak Center at Lakeside  is a year round attraction, hot spot, with roller skating and water play area. 

Lakeside offers skates and helmet rentals, skate sharpening and bag check or locker to store your gear.

Visit on a Weekday or early in the morning to avoid crowds.
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• Prosect Park Alliance President Week Programming (It's Free).   Monday, February 17-Friday February 21, 2014.http://www.prospectpark.org/calendar/event/presidents-week

1. Winter in the wild 1-3 P.M: Join naturalists and discover the winter survival strategies of animals that live in Prospect Park. Enjoy nature games and more.
2. Lip Balm Making 1-3 P.M
3. Winter Theme Button Making 1-3 P.M 
4. Blooming Naturalists Winter Adaptation Edition 1-2 P.M: Make your own nature journal at Audubon Center.
5. Animal Encounter: 2 P.M. Learn about the animals in the Audubon Center Collection. Discover what it takes to care for those amazing creatures.
6. Family Bird Watching: The great backyard bird count 3 P.M. Help naturalists track North American bird.

           

• Brooklyn Children Museum (Crown Height) Friday February 14-Friday, February 21, 2014.http://www.brooklynkids.org/index.php/visit/calendarofevents

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• Greenlight Baby Story time 2014. Sunday, February 16 and Sunday February 23 at 11 AM.

Greenlight Book Store, http://greenlightbookstore.com/ 686 Fulton St at South Portland Ave. Children's performers including songstresses Miss Nina, The Good Ms. Padgett and Vered entertain babies and toddlers, music and interactive play. 

On Sunday mornings, ages 6 weeks to 3 years old.

Crown Heights- Located in the Central portion of NYC borough of Brooklyn

Originally, the area was known as Crow Hill.  It was a succession of Hills running East and West from Utica Ave to Classon Ave, and South to Empire Blvd and New York Ave. 

The name was when Crown Street was cut in 1916. It's under the jurisdiction of two precincts of New York City Police Department.

Crown Height had begun as a posh residential neighborhood, a "bedroom" for Manhattan's growing bourgeois class. The area benefited by having it's rapid transit in a subway configuration in contrast to many other Brooklyn neighborhood that had elevated lines.Conversion to a commuter town also included tearing down the 19th Century Kings County Penitentiary at Carroll St and Nostrand Ave.

In the early 1900's, upper class residences including characteristic brownstone buildings, we're elevated along Eastern Parkway.  Away from Eastern Parkway were a mixture of lower middle-class residences. The development peaked in the 1920's

Before the World War II, Crown Height was among New York City's premier neighborhoods, with tree-lined Streets, array of cultural institution and parks and numerous fraternal, social and community organization. 

Crown Height is home to:

1. Brooklyn Botanical Garden: http://www.bbg.org/?gclid=CLP1t8Lfhb4CFYqhOgod13wA
2. Brooklyn Public Library: http://www.bklynpubliclibrary.org/
3. Jewish Children Museum: http://www.jcm.museum/
4. Brooklyn Children's Museum:  http://www.brooklynkids.org/                

Crown Heights was home to the famous:

1. Clive Davis-Music Industry Executive
2. Buckshot-Rapper
3. Dr. Susan Mckinney Stewart-First African American woman to earn a medical degree in New York City
4. Beverly Sills-Opera Singer and administrator, among others.                                                                                                                                                                                                      
   
                                                                                                                                                                                      

   

   Brooklyn Botanic Garden

                                              

   

   Brooklyn Public Library

                                        

   

   Brooklyn Museum