Sunnyside & Woodside with Kids: Top 30 Things to Do for NYC Families
Submitted by Kelly O on
Known as Sunny/Wood to us locals, adjacent Queens neighborhoods Sunnyside and Woodside are perpetually lumped together. But as a longtime Sunnyside resident, I know their differences firsthand. Sunnyside is a tiny, tight-knit community that occupies about one square mile of Western Queens while Woodside is quite vast and commercial in comparison. But they still have a lot in common.
Both neighborhoods boast quiet and relatively affordable residential housing, diverse populations and cute little ma-and-pa shops and restaurants. That's made Sunny/Wood increasingly popular with families—new ones seem to move in every day as they're priced out of Manhattan and Brooklyn. Lively local listserv Sunnymoms is a great resource for meet-ups, special events, selling/obtaining second-hand baby items and general moral support. Woodside has its own online community, Woodside Families, which offers more of the same.