Feb 11, 2012
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Labor Day Weekend with the Family
This is the last long weekend together before school starts. A county fair with rides and BMX demonstrations, a unicycle festival and colorful, costumed parade events are fun ways to burn off energy before settling back into the routine of school.
Bodies in motion is the theme of the West Indian American Day Parade and its events in Brooklyn, and the three-day Unicycle Festival that wheels to Coney Island, Governors Island and Grant's Tomb in Manhattan.
On Museum Mile (Fifth Avenue), the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of the City of New York are both open for the holiday.
Take your pick of fun, take in the sights or just take a rest. At least deciding what to do won't be hard work.
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Historic Richmond Town/Staten Island Historical Society
Staten IslandSat, Sept 4, 2010 – Mon, Sept 6, 2010
This huge event includes amusement park rides, pig races, potato sack races, a Led Zeppelin tribute band, Beatlemania, the Nashville Attitude, the Richmond County Orchestra and the Riverside Opera Company. There's also pie-eating contests and blue-ribbon awards for the best crafts and more. More -
New York City Unicycle Festival
General Grant National Memorial
ManhattanSun, Sept 5, 2010
The New York Unicycle Club hosts Sunday's festivities at Grant's Tomb, their usual home. Unicycles are on site for those who cannot BYOU. More -
West Indian American Day Carnival Association
BrooklynSun, Sept 5, 2010
This event features performers David Rudder, Black Stalin, Denise Belfon, Rikki Jai, Ajala and Aaron Duncan. Also included are the King and Queen of the Bands competition, stilt walkers and rhythm masters. Music provided by Sunshine Band and DJ One Plus, MC‘s Wassy, Jemm Jordan and Godfrey Jack. More -
2010 West Indian American Day Parade
West Indian American Day Carnival Association
BrooklynMon, Sept 6, 2010
This parade is a celebration of West Indian culture, song and dance. Hundreds of thousands of West Indian Americans, Brooklynites and New Yorkers of all backgrounds stake out a spot along the parade route, which runs down Eastern Parkway, Brooklyn from Schenectady Avenue to Grand Army Plaza. More -
Manhattan
This 172-acre island in New York Harbor was a quiet military installation under the jurisdiction of the U.S. Army from 1794 to 1966 and of the Coast Guard until 1996. It now hosts free art exhibitions, festivals and ticketed concerts and is accessible by a free ferry. More -
Manhattan
Children can wander through time and space without ever leaving New York during a day at the Metropolitan Museum. Its encyclopedic collection of great art from virtually all periods and continents gives a new and broader meaning to the term "multicultural." More -
Holiday Monday Family Programs
ManhattanPlease check full listing for event date and times
Families with children ages 5-12 can take part in art discussion and sketching. Programs begin at 11 am, noon, 1:15 and 2:30 pm. More -
Museum of the City of New York
Manhattan
Among the museum's collections that illustrate the city's history are toys and dolls, Broadway costumes and fire trucks. More