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AccessibilityNYC Parks Resources for Seniors
NYC Parks offers a variety of programs for older adults to keep active, healthy, social and engaged in their community. From sports to nature walks, from dancing under the stars to laps in the pool, older adults can continue to lead physically active lives through sports, fitness, and outdoor adventure.
Visit our Senior Events page for a list of programs in our parks and recreation centers for older adults.
Our recreation centers offer many facilities and programs for active seniors. Resources include fitness rooms, indoor pools, indoor tracks, access to computers and media education, and a variety of exercise classes. Memberships cost only $25 a year for adults ages 62 or older.
A dozen indoor pools around NYC provide the opportunity for you to swim all year round. Indoor pools have regular lap swim hours and aquatics programming, all for just $25 a year for seniors.
Fitness
We host fitness programs designed specifically for people with limited mobility, from wheelchair aerobics to adaptive tennis.
The Adapted Aquatics exercise program offers a complete body workout that ranges from gentle walking in water to high-energy exercise.
The City Parks Foundation offers free tennis lessons, yoga instruction, and fitness walking at locations throughout the city.
Shape Up NYC offers free fitness classes every week at dozens of locations across the five boroughs.
Water Exercise
Improve your health and socialize through water exercise classes at our indoor pools.
Summer
Every summer we open the outdoor pools a little early in the morning,
and keep them open a little later in the evening, just for lap swimmers.
Events
Our parks are home to a wide variety of avian species throughout the year. Come on a birding trip and learn more.
Travel back in time with these history walks and lectures. Learn about the city's epic past, and visit some of its less-known relics.
Thousands of events are held in NYC Parks each year for people of all ages. Browse through a list of events that welcome seniors, and make your next outing in a park near you!
Summer
Our popular Movies Under the Stars program offers family-friendly
entertainment for people of all ages. Parks will be providing a minimum
of 25 chairs at each of its movies for seniors, pregnant women,
and disabled individuals.
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