Earlier this year, I wrote about the best indoor play places in Westchester County, with a crew of kids serving as my testers. The story ran in Westchester Magazine.
Previously, I'd set out to find the greatest outdoor playground in the county. That too ran in Westchester Magazine. That story also involved unpaid minors doing all the hard work.
That one starts:
Westchester has, as we well know, the best of everything. The best restaurants, best parks, best stores—not to mention taxes that no other region can boast of. So it only stands to reason that the area’s playgrounds, thanks in no small part to those hefty taxes, are among the finest in the country.
But what makes for a great playground is in the eyes of the beholder, and it certainly helps if that beholder’s eyes are level with, say, a swing, or the third step up to a slide. So, after an extensive canvassing of parents for a list of the region’s best playgrounds, we conscripted a panel of experts—a half dozen native sons and daughters, ages 4 to 8—to climb all over the swings, slides, and spinny chairs and share their thoughts. They are sibs Charlotte and Gavin (Hawthorne), Conor and Eoin (Valhalla), and Leo and Lulu (Mamaroneck). Here’s their take.
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