Cafe Grumpy Financial District

About 25 minutes across the harbor with the skyline and the Statue of Liberty out the window. Everyone gets off at the far end, so reboard to come back.

Galleries of Native art and culture, plus the imagiNATIONS activity center for when kids want to do something with their hands.

Granite slides at different heights, tree houses to scramble through and sand and water to mess with. Every age finds a slide.

Your kid rides inside a glowing fish, and the whole thing feels like drifting underwater.

Downtown hotel with two-bedroom connecting setups and two-queen rooms.

Interactive scenes following young people through the rescue of Jews in Denmark, for older kids.