The beautiful Beekman Family Coach is back! Coaches like this were very rare, super fancy, and would have been used on special occasions. This coach is only one of three surviving coaches from 18th-century America. It was made for the merchant James Beekman in 1771, and New-York Historical has it today thanks to Beekman family…

Join us online every Tuesday and Friday at 3:30 pm for Little New-Yorkers @ Home. Check our calendar for registration links. It’s springtime, Little New-Yorkers! Bring a little bit of that springtime rainbow inside this week as we read Florette, written and illustrated by Anna Walker. Meet Mae, a country kid who moves to the…

Join us online every Tuesday and Friday at 3:30 pm for Little New-Yorkers @ Home. Check our calendar for registration links. Little New Yorkers @ Home: Decorate a Portrait of Planet Earth Celebrate our life-giving, spectacular, awe-inspiring planet Earth. This week, we’re reading My Friend Earth by Patricia MacLachlan and illustrated by Francesca Sanna, and…

Written by Tirzah Jane Baker We’ve been crazy for trains this winter at the New-York Historical Society! To accompany our exhibition Holiday Express: Toys and Trains from the Jerni Collection, we’ve created lots of train art projects and crafts for our weekly story time Little New Yorkers, a drop-in program for 3–5 year olds and…

Written by Tirzah Baker   This election year, even our youngest museum visitors are getting politically engaged! On Tuesday, November 1, and Friday, November 4, we’ll be learning all about Election Day at Little New-Yorkers by reading If I Were President by Catherine Stier. Afterwards, we’ll discuss the importance of voting and what makes a…

Written by Neysela DaSilva-Reed,   Our Little New-Yorkers have been on quite the adventure since they started dropping in to our program in 2013. They’ve ventured beyond the cozy Barbara K. Lipman Children’s History Library and into the galleries upstairs, where they got up close to amazing objects in our collections, such as the wonderful Beekman…

By Neysela Dasilva-Reed, We often find discarded objects just lying around at home. What could be better than finding ways to recycle these objects into fun activities? Recently in our Little New-Yorkers program, which meets Tuesdays and Fridays at 3:30 pm, we read The Earth Book by Todd Parr to get our little ones to…

November was Superhero month at Little New-Yorkers in celebration of our exhibition Superheroes in Gotham. Each week we discovered a new superhero, from Iron Man to Wonder Woman. The crafts for this month were all linked to allow us to make our own complete superhero costumes! If you missed any of the weeks, we wanted…

In our Little New-Yorkers program, we explore living in New York through an array of wonderful children’s books that introduce us to and help us explore the city. We explore anything from travelling on the subway to meeting characters from different cultures that make up this city’s 8 million inhabitants. As we continue to venture…