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City Parks Foundation Youth Programs offers activities that include tennis, track and field, soccer, golf, fitness, yoga, rowing on a rowboat, and live music, dance, and theater performances. The program includes environmental education programs that involve science and focus on the natural world and ways participants can protect the natural environment. Sports programs include free sports instruction, coaching, and equipment for participants and senior citizens at nearly 70 locations citywide.
• Ages: 6–17 years old
• Price: free sports instruction, coaching and equipment
City Parks Foundation Youth Programs is part of City Parks Foundation, whose mission is to invigorate and transform parks into centers of urban life through sports, arts, community building, and education programs for New Yorkers. CityParks tennis is described as the largest municipal tennis instruction program for kids in the country. Capital One City Parks Foundation SummerStage is described as the city’s largest free outdoor performing arts festival. The sports programs provide free sports instruction, coaching, and equipment to more than 9,000 kids ages 6 to 17 and senior citizens in nearly 70 locations citywide. Environmental education programs help students experience science while learning about their relationship to the natural world and ways they can protect the environment. Partnerships for Parks is a public-private partnership between City Parks Foundation and NYC Parks that supports neighborhood volunteers with tools to advocate for and care for neighborhood parks and green spaces, and equips people, organizations, and government with skills and tools to transform neighborhood parks and green spaces into community assets. Avery Corman, author of Kramer vs. Kramer, is listed in the leadership team, and in 1989 he began looking for ways to improve the park near where he had grown up in the Bronx.
Last updated July 29, 2026.
• Ages: 6–17 years old
• Price: free sports instruction, coaching and equipment
City Parks Foundation Youth Programs is part of City Parks Foundation, whose mission is to invigorate and transform parks into centers of urban life through sports, arts, community building, and education programs for New Yorkers. CityParks tennis is described as the largest municipal tennis instruction program for kids in the country. Capital One City Parks Foundation SummerStage is described as the city’s largest free outdoor performing arts festival. The sports programs provide free sports instruction, coaching, and equipment to more than 9,000 kids ages 6 to 17 and senior citizens in nearly 70 locations citywide. Environmental education programs help students experience science while learning about their relationship to the natural world and ways they can protect the environment. Partnerships for Parks is a public-private partnership between City Parks Foundation and NYC Parks that supports neighborhood volunteers with tools to advocate for and care for neighborhood parks and green spaces, and equips people, organizations, and government with skills and tools to transform neighborhood parks and green spaces into community assets. Avery Corman, author of Kramer vs. Kramer, is listed in the leadership team, and in 1989 he began looking for ways to improve the park near where he had grown up in the Bronx.
Last updated July 29, 2026.
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