Long Island City
Amazingly Fun Food Event in Long Island City
My favorite new Queens magazine Edible Queens will be hosting the first annual Edible Winter Warm-Up on January 24, noon-3pm. The FREE afternoon event will include local food, drinks and entertainment to benefit Hour Children, a local food pantry.
The event will take place at L Haus
in Long Island City and have food tastings from local restaurants,
cafes and food artisans, including Sweetleaf; Manducati’s Rustica; JJ’s
Asian Fusion; Red Jacket Orchards; Arriba Arriba; Sage General Store;
This Chick Bakes; Pestos with Panache, Dolce Nonna, LIC Market,
Bareburger, and the Queens County Farm Museum.
Guests can also get a book signed by my favorite new Astoria Queens authors, Tamara Reynolds and Zora O’Neill, of Forking Fantastic! Put the Party back in Dinner Party.
Please bring a canned good to help support Hour Children’s food pantry.
Can’t carry it with you? This event kicks off a month-long can drive at L haus.
Spots are filling up fast so RSVP QUICK to ediblequeensevents@gmail.com
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Long Island City with Kids
Baby Yoga – The Yoga Room offers yoga classes for you and your baby or toddler that focus on your wellness and your child’s. Contact them for specific class information.
10-14 47th Road
Long Island City NY
LIC Kids – offers gymnastics, martial arts, yoga, theater, Mommy & Me, and camps during school recess. LIC
Kids also offers space for open play, parties, shows and so much more.
Evening classes for working parents with babysitting services are also
available. 
Library – The LIC branch has regular Toddler Time and Teen Programs.
37-44 21st Street
Long Island City NY
and are open every day but Sunday
Socrates Sculpture Park -
Socrates Sculpture Park is the only site in the New York Metropolitan
area specifically dedicated exhibiting large-scale outdoor sculpture.
The Sculpture Park has year round events which include a Summer Outdoor
Art Workshop and Various happenings throughout the year. The park is
open 365 days a year from 10am to sunset.
Water Taxi Beach – Water Taxi Beach is a summer destination for hip parents who want to 
get out and party with their tots. There are day events where parents
can hang out and have cocktails while the kids play in the sand and
dance on the dance floor.
Long Island City YMCA
– The Y has an indoor pool and classes for families like Mom, Dad, and
Me Art Class and Wiggles and Giggles for tots. Universal Pre k is also
available as well as a great Teen Program. Check out their website for
more details and to become a member. The Y is located at
32-23 Queens Boulevard
Long Island City
Five Pointz Aerosol Arts Center
– If you want to expose your tween to some really cool art then take
them to see 5 pointz where aerosol artists from around the globe paint
colorful 
pieces on the walls of a 200,000-square-foot factory building.
45-46 Davis Street
Long Island City NY
serves breakfast and lunch in an old fashioned country store setting.
Their Blue Plate Specials like Mac and Cheese rotate every week so you
can always expect something exciting.
To submit your Queens Neighborhood for our next Best Neighborhoods guide, email us at Queensmamas@yahoo.com and put “Best Neighborhoods” in the subject title.
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Water Taxi Beach
Today I decided to take my tween and her friend to Water Taxi Beach
for the first time. We drove down by the water in Long Island City and
parked on a desolate street. The two girls looked at me like I was out
of my mind, ” there is a beach down here ?” they said sceptically.
“That’s what they say” I said and we walked toward the large yellow
sign that indicated we were in the right spot. As we got closer to the
water we began to hear the sound of thumping house music and saw some
college kids making thair way out. I had a brief moment of ” what the
hell am I doing bringing 10 year olds to a place like this” when a
bouncer asked me for my ID. ” This is kid friendly ?” i said. The
bouncer nodded his head and we walked in. The music was so loud that
the unborn child I am currently housing began to to summersaults in my
belly. There was a football field sized sand ” beach” with several bar
areas, some serving what I was told to be good burgers, and plenty of
picnic tables. There was also a tented dance floor area where the music
was coming from. The girls headed straight for the dance floor to stand
on the sidelines and watch in amazement at the dancers who were
sweating it up with some pretty cool moves. There were children
everywhere, babies, toddlers, and pre teens running around playing in
the sand and having a blast. At first the girls were sceptical about
the ability to have fun in such a strange place where adults and
children alike were dancing and partying together, but they came
around. By the end of our stay they had hooked up with a boy their age
and were playing football in the sand. Had I not been pregnant, I would
have had a beer, but instead I sat at a picnic table and chilled with
some friends, and a bottled water. All in all it was a tween success. I
was able to supervise them while they exercied their new found sense of
” leave me the hell alone”.
