This Summer in New York
The Playdate Project Beatrice, 9 Neighborhood: Lower East Side Ideal playdate: Going to the LEGO Store
Elasia, 9 Neighborhood: Harlem Ideal playdate: Riding the Ferris wheel at Toys “R” Us
T he P l a y d a te
Food tour at Passport to Eataly Eataly, 200 Fifth Ave (212-229-2560, eataly.com)
WORD ON THE STREET “Daddy, you’re old and I’m new!” “Microscopes are not the most important part of science. Explosions are the most important.” “Sometimes things are more easier when you’re little.”
“You see things that people travel from all over the world to see. If I come downtown, the Empire State Building is right in front of me!”
FAVORITE THING ABOUT N YC
“The parks. I like to go to the secret entrance to the playground in Central Park. You get in from on top of a rock.”
“I thought she was actually gonna be shorter. I also thought she’d be very quiet, but I can see now that she’s the exact opposite!”
FIRST IMPRESSION
“She looked fun, but she didn’t look like what I expected—I thought she’d have black curly hair. I’m pretty sure we’re the same age.”
“I would go on a naked vacation.”
B E S T P a rt
“Tasting the gelato. No, no—the mozzarella! It was very chewy and yummy, and I liked seeing how it’s made.”
“Cake with no ice cream? That is ridiculous.”
“It’s between the gelato and pizza stations. Their Margherita pizza is too good to be eaten with a knife and fork.”
««««« “We have a lot in common
because we’re older sisters. I wish I’d brought my wallet to give her one of my mom’s cards.”
FRIEND P O T E N T I AL
««««« “I think we’d get along if we hung
out more. We’d probably go here again! We’re both obsessed with lasagna.”
Want to get set up? Email us at kids.ny@timeout.com with “PLAYDATE” in the subject line.
P I N T- S I Z E o P i c a ss de art
A va n t- g a r ’s fr o m N yc r y ll e P e a n u t Ga
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“I like the letter F. F is for face.”
“It smells like poison, but sometimes it smells like cookies.”
Evelyn Icasuriaga, 4; Crown Heights “It’s a rainbow, and that’s me and my friends Quinnie and Sammy on the swings. I get a crown and long hair because it’s my picture.”
photographs: the playdate project: raydene salinas; pint-size picasso: lauren spinelli
We sent these mini New Yorkers on a blind (play)date in the city. Are they now BFFs?