Adventurer's Family Entertainment Center Offers Little Kid Fun
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Hitting an amusement park with the family is a rite of summer. If you happen to have young children, you don't even need to leave New York City to do it. Victorian Gardens in Central Park, Fantasy Forest at the Flushing Meadows Carousel in Queens and Fantasy Shore at Midland Beach all specialize in little kid rides like gentle flying swings, choo-choo trains, super-slow carousels and mini-roller coasters. Even Coney Island's more grown-up attractions, Deno's Wonder Wheel and Luna Park, offer rides that won't cause whiplash.
But there's another NYC amusement park that's great for young children that is, for whatever reason, comparatively unknown. I'd spied Adventurer's Family Entertainment Center from the Belt Parkway many times as we sped by on our way to Coney and I always wanted to visit. So this year, when my 2-year-old passed the 36-inch mark (the minimum height requirement for most of the park's rides), we decided to check out Adventurer's. Not only is it closer to my Bay Ridge home, it's less expensive and crowded than its Coney counterparts.