1 / 3Elmwood Park Recreation
📍 Elmwood Park, NY
Community recreation center offering swimming pools, gymnasium, playground facilities, and regular family events including multicultural festivals and holiday celebrations.
Not everyone has gone "down the shore" on this beautiful Saturday. Quite a few individuals, including ourselves, visited the Elmwood Park Multi-Cultural Festival Street Fair on Market Street to check out vendor markets, interactive activities, art demonstrations, games, and food trucks at an all-in-one-day event. Just in time for lunch, one of us ended up getting a waffle cone with chocolate ice cream and chocolate syrup. From one of the food trucks, Carinderia on Wheels ordered the veggie pancit and veggie spring roll (lumpia). Carinderias (Tagalog: karinderya) are small Filipino 🇵🇭 eating establishments, typically in a market or by the roadside. Pancit is a classic Filipino recipe consisting of an easy stir-fried rice noodle served with snow peas, cabbage, and carrots. It was tasty and not greasy or messy. The spring roll has a crepe-like wrapping and comes with carrots, green beans (string beans), bean sprouts, and cabbage. The accompanying dipping sauce is made from vinegar with some chopped chili, garlic, and soy sauce. It had a kick and complimented the roll. Just a day well spent!
🏆 Family Action Verdict
This versatile recreation center works well for families with children of various ages, offering swimming, playground equipment, fitness facilities, and regular community events. The consistently praised helpful staff make it particularly welcoming for families new to fitness activities. Best visited during warmer months for outdoor festivals, though indoor facilities provide year-round options.
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💬 What Families Are Saying
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Eloy Yip
2 years ago
“Not everyone has gone "down the shore" on this beautiful Saturday. Quite a few individuals, including ourselves, visited the Elmwood Park Multi-Cultural Festival Street Fair on Market Street to check out vendor markets, interactive activities, art demonstrations, games, and food trucks at an all-in-one-day event. Just in time for lunch, one of us ended up getting a waffle cone with chocolate ice cream and chocolate syrup. From one of the food trucks, Carinderia on Wheels ordered the veggie pancit and veggie spring roll (lumpia). Carinderias (Tagalog: karinderya) are small Filipino 🇵🇭 eating establishments, typically in a market or by the roadside. Pancit is a classic Filipino recipe consisting of an easy stir-fried rice noodle served with snow peas, cabbage, and carrots. It was tasty and not greasy or messy. The spring roll has a crepe-like wrapping and comes with carrots, green beans (string beans), bean sprouts, and cabbage. The accompanying dipping sauce is made from vinegar with some chopped chili, garlic, and soy sauce. It had a kick and complimented the roll. Just a day well spent!”
Ryon
a year ago
“staff is helpful, friendly, even interactive sometimes which is always nice. weight room is clean and tidy, basketball court is great with 6 hoops, just an overall great place to be especially if you are just getting started into fitness. if you have a question about any equipment, they truly are willing to answer your questions. hands down the most positive gym experience I've ever had. you don't feel like you're bothering anyone, no one is sitting around on their phones, I can go on and on.”
Martha Sosa De Fermin
3 years ago
“Nice place to be there with Your kids, nice water 💦 park and playground 🛝”
Renee Sotelo
7 years ago
“Had a great time at the end of summer food truck and music festival”
Reviews from Google
Overview
Elmwood Park Recreation features a recreation complex with swimming pools, gymnasium, weight room, and playground facilities. The department runs year-round programs including basketball, soccer, crafts classes, before and after care, and summer day camps with a water spray park. Families enjoy regular community events like multicultural festivals, Easter egg hunts, and Halloween contests.
