Andrea Mohin/The New York TimesPut all eggs in one basket. Updated 6:32 a.m.
Good Friday morning on this Good Friday.
Attention parents of vacationing schoolchildren:
You’ve taken the kids to the museum, the movies and the zoo â€" and there are still five days of spring break to get through.
What’s left?
Plenty.
Here’s a little list of things to do, many of them free.
Continuing:
- Make a stop-action movie using Legos at the Museum of the Moving Image in Queens, through Tuesday.
- The roller rink is open in Prospect Park. (The cafe now serves alcohol, beleaguered parent.)
- It’s Earth Week at the Brooklyn Children’s Museum.
- The Czechoslovak-American Marionette Theater presents “Don Juan, or Wages of Debauchery,†supposedly suitable for children 6 and up, on the Upper East Side, through Sunday.
Today:
- The Culinary Kids Food Festival at the New York Botanical Garden.
- A preview of a musical about Einstein at the Hall of Science in Queens at 1 p.m.
- An introduction to bird-watching in Prospect Park at noon (also Saturday).
Saturday:
- An autism-friendly performance of “Disney Junior Live on Tour!†at Madison Square Garden at 11 a.m. [$32 and up]
- Egg hunts galore at city parks.
- Puppet shows: “The Squirrel and the Caterpillar†at Forest Park in Queens, and “Seucy & Boto (Stories From the Amazon Jungle),†at La MaMa in the East Village.
Sunday:
- The Easter Parade and Bonnet Festival in Midtown.
- Explore Orchard Beach in the Bronx.
- A Passover dance party at the Jewish Museum on the Upper East Side.
Monday:
- Look at pond water and rocks under a microscope at High Rock Park in Staten Island.
Tuesday:
- Earth Day celebrations abound, including in Union Square.
For even more activities, check out the city’s kid-friendly itinerary or spring-break guides from Mommy Poppins and the parks department.
That should keep ‘em busy.
Here’s what else you need to know for Friday and the weekend.
WEATHER
Getting warmer, a bit: 53 and sunny today.
Warmer still on Saturday, with a high of 65.
Cooling down Sunday but still nice, with a sunny high of 58.
Today’s tree pollen forecast: moderate.
COMMUTE
Subways: Delays on the northbound A and N. Check latest status.
Rails: O.K. Check L.I.R.R., Metro-North or N.J. Transit status.
Roads: Inbound Northern State stalled by crash. Check traffic map or radio report on the 1s or the 8s.
Alternate-side parking is suspended for Good Friday.
Weekend Travel Hassles: Check subway disruptions or list of street closings.
COMING UP TODAY
- Mayor de Blasio appoints a PBS documentary executive, Cynthia Lopez, to head the city’s office of film, theater and broadcasting. 12:15 p.m. at Steiner Studios in Queens.
- Two Way of the Cross processions for Good Friday â€" one across Manhattan starting on East 47th Street at 8:30 a.m., the other over the Brooklyn Bridge starting at 10 a.m.
- Food vendors return to the High Line.
- The still-uncategorizable 2004 documentary “Tarnation†screens at BAM at 7:30 p.m. [$13]
- The night bazaar in Greenpoint runs from 7 p.m. to 1 a.m. [Free]
- For more events, see The New York Times Arts & Entertainment guide.
IN THE NEWS
- Charles Hynes, the former Brooklyn district attorney, admitted that his office detained witnesses against their will. [Daily News]
- The M.T.A. reached a deal with the transit workers union that requires no fare hikes to pay for it. [New York Times]
- A father of 13 was fatally shot behind the counter of the bodega he ran in Bushwick. [New York Post]
- A New York hotelier illegally funneled more than $180,000 to candidates, inlcuding Hillary Rodham Clinton’s 2008 presidential campaign. [New York Times]
- The man inside the baseball-headed mascot Mr. Met says a Secret Service agent vowed to “go for the kill shot†if he got too close to President Clinton at a 1997 game. [Daily News]
- A cabbie sneaked through toll plazas 4,000 times by “piggybacking†on the driver in front of him â€" but still charged passengers for the tolls, prosecutors said. [New York Times]
- A man who had made a home in the underside of the Manhattan Bridge was evicted. [New York Post]
- Rangers shoot down Flyers in playoff opener, 4-1. Yankees dim Rays, 10-2.
THE WEEKEND
Saturday
- A junk swap in Sunnyside, Queens. Noon to 3 p.m. [Free]
- Opening party for the Crate, a vinyl record store in East Williamsburg. Noon to 9 p.m. [Free]
- A Japanese cherry blossom festival in Flushing Meadows Corona Park in Queens. 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. [Free]
-The Times’s Weekend Miser recommends “Next Goal Wins,†a documentary about the Samoan national soccer team, at Brookfield Place downtown. Live Samoan drums and soccer drills at 6 p.m., movie at 8 p.m. [Free]
Sunday
- A commemoration of the April 19, 1943, Warsaw Ghetto Uprising at the Warsaw Ghetto Memorial on Riverside Drive. 2 p.m. [Free]
- An Easter organ recital and a choir performance at St. Thomas Church in Midtown. 2:30 p.m. [Free]
- For more events, see The New York Times Arts & Entertainment guide.
- And if you’re looking for stuff to do outside New York City, The Times’s Metropolitan section has suggestions for Westchester, Long Island, New Jersey and Connecticut.
Sandra E. Garcia contributed reporting.
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