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    4.5 (37 reviews)

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    Posted with review 04/23/21
    Marianne W.

    Heckscher Playground is another big playground near an active area in Central Park. I've stopped here many times over the years to watch the children play. These are some of my photos from over the years posted with my review. I'm pretty sure the children are adults now! I have stopped including children in my photos since I took these. This was a busy beautiful weather day in June right after the children were out of school for the summer. This playground has a lot of free space for running off all the energy after being cooped up all Winter. I bet this Summer after the Covid Boredom Winter you'll see a lot of fun going on in this playground!

    Phil H.

    Huge playground area that is part of Central Park and right off one of the entrances, so its easy to find. Grass fields, ballparks, large rocks, fountains to play in on a hot day, swings, sand areas, this park has it all. Nice spot to being the kids.

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    Evan M.

    Finally had a chance to try this playground! We all had an awesome time. The little guy really loved to climb on everything on the west side of the park. It features a sand area with some structures, some flat spaces with some soft material and artificial grass for playing games/sports, slides, swings, and some concrete structures with pyramids and parapets to climb on. I love to see the juxtaposition of the playground against the skyscrapers at the edge of the park/midtown.

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    Tony Z.

    Super fun area of the park. Very social atmosphere lots of people, families, kids, everyone just enjoying a day out.

    Jeremy J.

    Very large playground park located in central park soon as you come in from the Manhattan side. We walked all around it and saw the cool things that it had to be definitely great to take my kids there

    Joseph G.

    Huge playground near the manhattan entrance of Central Park. Didn't have any kids with me but it looked like it would be a tremendous amount of fun for the young ones. Lots of tall hills to climb that they integrated into playground. So that was cool to see

    Kara S.

    If I could pick up this park and plop it down in Boston Commons, I would. It's simply perfect, both for kids and adults. Kids have some unique concrete climbing 'hills' with ladders going down into tunnels (which we pretended were sewers because THAT IS HOW WE ROLL), bridges to run across, and a great water component which is perfect for a hot day. There are typically so many kids there, a great cross section of diversity from the city. Adults will have fun sitting out, people watching. The giant rocks that surround the playground are fun for relaxing on. My niece had as much fun scaling those as she did playing on the actual playground. There is also an area for smaller kids, so they don't get trampled by the older ones.

    Dav C.

    Newly renovated park is the largest in central park and great fun for the kids. It has a stream that crosses over a number of "hills" with tunnels and ladders and terminates in a set of sprinklers. The park also has a sand area, two of the biggest slides in the city and numerous swings. There's a lot of open space with soft surfaces for playing as well. The playground is located at Seventh Avenue & Central Park South from 61st to 63rd Streets.

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    Nice playground. Be warned, tons of sand and water. Would recommend coming prepared for that.

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    it is a good park for kids and I love it my kids love it and they love the park so much I am going to go with them.

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