As spring approaches, your children’s summer plans are likely on your mind! If you are looking for a camp or sports activity to put them in, consider Asphalt Green! Asphalt Green offers different types of camps and sports programs like swimming, soccer, baseball and martial arts. With a location uptown and downtown, Asphalt Green is convenient for all Glenwood residents.

Summer Camp Options

The Asphalt Green provides four different camp options for you this summer!

If you are interested, there is a summer camp open house Sunday March 8th from 11am-12pm at 555 E 90th Street.

Mini Camps

• The mini camps are offered for children 4.5 years old to 12 years old. Camp begins at 8:45am and ends at 3:15pm. There is an optional pre-camp that begins at 7:45am and a post-camp that runs until 5:15pm. It is held at the Upper East Side location.  Swimming, sports, arts and crafts, music, and martial arts will be the focus of this camp along with an emphasis on learning great sportsmanship! This is a “mini” camp because it runs for a shorter time. If you live in Glenwood uptown buildings, the UES Asphalt Green location is perfect for you!

Summer Day Camp

• Asphalt Green summer day camp is offered for 4.5 year old to 13 year old children. Similar to the mini camp, there is a focus on swimming, sports, arts and crafts, music, and martial arts. The camp is held at both the Upper East side (555 E 90^thSt) and downtown (212 North End Avenue) locations. Call 212-298-7900 to find out more information on the camp. You can click here to register or request additional information.

Swim Camp

• Swim camp at Asphalt green is held for children ages 8 years old-15 years old at the Upper East Side location. Asphalt Green has an exceptional swim program that has sent many of its team members to collegiate level swimming and even the Olympics! If you child loves to swim, they will have a blast here learning from the very best! The swim camp is Monday through Friday 8am to 4pm.

Soccer Camp

• Soccer camp is offered for children 6-14 years old at the Upper East Side turf field. If your child loves soccer, make sure to check this camp out! It takes place Monday through Friday 9am-4pm. If you would like more information call 212-298-7900.

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About Asphalt Green

Asphalt Green is such a great facility! Aside from offering camps, it provides free and low cost programs to close to 50,000 children and seniors annually! It also offer scholarships to talented individuals with financial need. Asphalt Green gives back to its community with programs like Waterproofing, which is a free swim instruction class for public NYC school students. Click here to find out more about the Waterproofing program. During the year Asphalt Green hosts special events like The Big Swim and Big Kick to help its efforts to provide free and low cost options! I

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Halloween in New York City has long been home to myriad creepy, raucous delights for adults, from invitation-only theme parties and ribald club nights to the recent explosion of R-rated "haunted houses" around town. The following list, however, is for all of you who want to show your little ones a good, spooky (but not TOO spooky) time over the next couple of weeks, before the trick-or-treating begins in earnest, whether in your building or at one those great block parties that Upper West Siders in particular seem to be so good at throwing (the one on 69th Street is amazing but gets mobbed; maybe this year try 87th between West End and Riverside, or 95th between Columbus and CPW instead). Here then: 6 Best Bets For NYC Kid's Halloween Fun.

Haunted High Line Halloween – October 25th

The High Line may have become something of a slow-walking tourist mecca / nerve-jangling construction site these days, but pick the right spots (the new Rail Yards section is pretty spectacular, and still much less crowded than the area around 14th Street) and times of day (hint: not weekends), and you can still fully appreciate both the concept and design that has made this one of the city's iconic destinations. As it happens, the Friends of the High Line know how to throw a great party as well, and their annual Haunted High Line Halloween spook-fest is no exception. Located along the park's 14th to 17th Street stretch and lasting for a full four hours this Saturday, the 25th, the High Line's Halloween bash features ghosts from the neighborhood's "industrial past", a haunted train tunnel by renowned puppeteer Ralph Lee, themed crafts (turn your worst fear into a kite, and watch it fly high!) and games, and, of course, a fair amount of trick or treating. Yes, this will be mobbed, but your kids will have a good time. 

Halloween at the Children's Museum of the Arts – October 30th

Celebrate all that is creepy and crawly at this popular West Village children’s museum. Dress the tykes up in their costumes and come here for a day of making monster masks, composing horrific stories à la Edger Allen Poe and creating Halloween-appropriate cards to take home. From October 30 until November 2 bring the kids to Children’s Museum of the Arts for a crafty Halloween. Write a scary story, design a monster mask, mold spooky creatures at the Clay Bar and more. Kids in costume get $2 of admission on October 31 and November 1. There will also be a trick-or-treat parade through the museum studios on November 1 at noon and 3pm. 

Halloween Parade and Pumpkin Flotilla at the Harlem Meer – October 26th

Central Park's lovely north end is home to such delightfully under-populated areas as the Conservatory Gardens, the dense North Woods, the field atop the Great Hill, and the Dana Discover Center at the Harlem Meer, site of the annual Halloween Parade and Pumpkin Flotilla. Held in the late afternoon/early evening of Sunday, October 26th, the Discovery Center offers neighborhood kids scary stories, live music, crazy-talented pumpkin carving demonstrations and, to conclude the festivities, a costume parade and pumpkin flotilla launched out onto the Meer at twilight. You can either bring your own pumpkin early (drop-off starts at 3:30 and continues until the "barges" of the flotilla are filled) or just watch other people's gourds set sail. This is super kid-friendly and a really pleasant Halloween experience.

Halloween at the American Museum of Natural History – October 31st

If you'd rather not deal with one of the Upper West Side's many block parties (or if the weather's not great), a solid option for area families is the 19th Annual Halloween Party at the American Museum of Natural History. There's trick-or-treating throughout the Museum's always-kinda-vaguely-spooky halls; live musical performances and a Big Apple Circus extravaganza, "Dr. Finklestein's Zombie Show"; magic from Robert Austin; some goofy mayhem via the Big Nazo Lab; and, photo-op alert, roaming characters like Clifford, Cookie Mouse and Curious George. The party runs from 4:00 to 7:00 p.m., and admission is $12 a person. 

Asphalt Screams – October 31st

The ever-community-minded folks at Asphalt Green are throwing sporty Halloween parties at both of their locations this year, on the Upper East Side and in Battery Park City. And though the activities sound suspiciously like regular fun and games with a Halloween-ish adjective tacked on–Zombie Freeze Tag! Spooktacular Soccer Shootout!–costumes are encouraged for everyone (including, one hopes, the first-rate Asphalt Green staffers) and free goody bags (presumably with healthy treats) will be handed out to the first 400 kids. Besides, however forced the Halloween connection may be, Asphalt Screams gives children an excellent opportunity to tear around and burn off that candy-high. The parties both run from 4:00 to 6:00 pm., and are free, though there's a suggested donation of $20 per family, all of which goes to the Fit Kids Fit City campaign. 

The Ghosts of Greenwich Village Family Scavenger Hunt – October 25

Watson Adventures organizes scavenger hunts in cities all over America, all year long, for both the general public and for events like corporate parties and such. Basically: they know what they're doing, and their Ghosts of Greenwich Village hunt, happening this Saturday the 25th, should be a running-around good time for families with kids older than seven. It works like you'd expect: teams of kids and adults (every team must have some of each) are given a series of clues and then race around always-a-pleasure Greenwich Village seeking out "secret cemeteries" carvings of bats, the "haunted homes" of Edgar Allen Poe and Mark Twain, Harry Potter’s enemy (WHAT?!), and a gorilla in a window. Hmmmmm…. I think I know some these already. The Family Scavenger Hunt begins at 3:00.

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For downtown Glenwood residents, this is very good news indeed. Asphalt Green, one of New York City’s finest sports and fitness centers, is coming to Battery Park City. Set to open this winter right on North End Avenue and Murray Street, the Battery Park City Asphalt Green campus is a fantastic 52,000 square foot facility with teams, classes and equipment for all ages and skill levels. And, maybe best of all, Glenwood residents can take advantage of some terrific Charter Membership specials now at the Battery Park City Asphalt Green, with deals and packages that can save you up to $150 right away, and an additional $15 a month.

They’re still putting on the finishing touches, but the Battery Park City Asphalt Green campus looks like it’s going to be terrific. There’s a 25-yard, six-lane Asphalt Green pool as well as a warm-water teaching and exercise pool. A comprehensive collection of cutting-edge Precor® cardio and strength equipment is complemented by a large selection of free-weights. The gym is fully equipped for basketball and indoor soccer. And there will plenty of fitness classes, training sessions, and organized team sports like soccer, baseball, and basketball. Plus, newly-signed charter members can start right away with a couple of Asphalt Green’s outdoor classes, Running Skills and Strength, as well as Outdoor Boot Camp! 

But the not-for-profit Asphalt Green has always been more than a just another gym, and the new Battery Park City campus is no exception. On the more community-center end of things, the Asphalt Green BPC facility boasts a half-dozen art studios and classrooms; theater, dance and music groups; a fully loaded Culinary Center for their line up of cooking and baking classes; and a state-of-the-art, 156-seat theater for screenings and lectures. Sounds great, right? And, of course, there’s that special Asphalt Green Charter Membership sale just to sweeten the deal a bit more.      

Asphalt Green Battery Park City details 

The Battery Park City campus of Asphalt is scheduled to open this winter, and is located on the corner of North End Avenue and Murray Street. Glenwood residents can take advantage of the Charter Membership sale at the temporary membership office at  211 North End Avenue, at Murray Street. For lots more information and Membership Office hours, please see the Asphalt Green website, here. 

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