When visiting New York City with your kids, there are many things to do with kids that will entertain their spirits and feed their minds.

The Whispering Gallery

Make your way to the Whispering Gallery. The Whispering Room’s architecture allows for a phenomenon that usually makes people laugh. Once inside the gallery, place one person facing the corner at one end of the room and then place another person facing the corner at the opposite end. Ask one of the participants to whisper a phase or a quick sentence or two and the person on the opposite end will be able to hear every word that was said.

E. 42nd St

212-771-5322

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The American Museum of Natural History

The American Museum of Natural History was founded in 1869. In addition to its impressive exhibits, permanent attractions bring the cool factor home to kids. They can enter the Fossil Halls and see the impressive dinosaur skeletons (骨架). And the Milstein Hall of Ocean Life educates kids about the fragility (脆弱) of the ocean.

Central Park West at 79th St

212-769-5606

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The Scholastic Store

Most parents want their children to read, and moreover, to enjoy reading. Scholastic helps to make that wish a reality by publishing interesting, well written stories that are popular with children. With such classics as “Clifford the Big Red Dog,” “The Magic School Bus,” and “Harry Potter,” the Scholastic Store will delight your children.

557 Broadway

212-343-6100

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Ellen’s Stardust Diner

The restaurant is a place where each person in your family can find something to eat. Arugula salads, grilled cheese, burgers and meatloaf are all on this varied menu. A hall of beauty queens, a drive-in theatre and wait staff that sing to you add to this unique dining experience.

1650 Broadway, corner of 51st St.

212-956-5151

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The Visitor Oyster card

A Visitor Oyster card is the cheapest way to pay for a single adult journeyin London. It’s a plastic smartcard. You can use it on the bus, tube, tram, DLR,London Overground and most National Rail services. It’s much cheaper thanbuying individual tickets, in some cases costing 50% less than the price of a regularpaper ticket.

You can buy a Visitor Oyster card online. Your card will be delivered by post.The card costs £5 and you choose how much money you want to add to the card.This means you can start using the card the moment you arrive in Central London.

The Oyster card works on a pay-as-you-go system. You start by adding money to the card. Then you travel, the cost of the fare will automatically bededucted from your Visitor Oyster card. For example, if you add £20 to thecard and make a tube journey of £2.30, you will have £17.70 left on the card.

·A child under the age of 11 travels free when accompanied by an adult.

·You’ll save more money if you use the tube several times. The Visitor Oyster cardis “capped (给……定上限)” at £6.80 per day.

·You’ll pay more during peak times. Peak fares apply from Monday to Friday (6:30am—9:30 am; 4:00 pm —7:00 pm), except for public holidays.

·Reuse the Oyster card by adding credit at a tube station, Oyster ticket shop orVisitor Centre.

·Receive a discount on the Thames Clippers River Bus services.

The Boston Public Library’s October talks feature a range of outstanding persons and topics.

*The South Boston Historical Society presents an author’s talk by Jim Lynch. He will discuss the lives of three generations making a living on the Boston’s seaside in his novel The Longshoremen: Life on the Waterfront on Friday, October 2, from 6:30 p. m. to 9:20 p. m. at the South Boston Branch.

* Margaret Ellen Newell, a great author, explores the stories of Indians enslaved by English settlers in New England and shows how they influenced New England society in very important ways in the eighteenth century. It’s on Sunday, October 4, from 6 p. m. to 8 p. m.in the Commonwealth Salon at the Central Library in Copley Square, at 700 Boylston Street.

*Nancy Schin is best-known for her sculpture in Boston, notably her bronze duck and ducklings in the Boston Public Garden. She will explore her major public projects, including what inspired them, and what goes into making a beautiful work of public art on Monday, October 19, from 5 p. m. to 7 p. m. in the Commonwealth Salon, at 700 Boylston Street.

*Erica Ferencik details The River at Night, set against the tough beauty of the Maine wilderness, which describes the risky journey of four friends in the undeveloped world where they fight to survive a boat accident. It is on Friday, October 23, from 6:40 p. m. to 9:20 p. m. in the Commonwealth Salon.

* Frederick Douglass Opie, author of Southern Food and Civil River Feeding the Revolution, shares the ways southern food nourished (滋养) the fight for freedom going back ages along with valuable recipes associated with the era; It’s on Monday, October 26, from6 p. m. to 9 p. m. in the Commonwealth Salon.