July 10: Staten Island Yankees baseball game. Join other dads and their children in Staten Island and root for the Yankees-or their across-the-Verrazano rivals, the Brooklyn Cyclones. 7:00pm

July 26: New York Liberty basketball game. Come out to Madison Square Garden for  "Dads and Daughters Night," and watch the women's basketball team take on the Phoenix Mercury in its run for that elusive championship crown. 4:00pm

August 22: Basketball Clinic at Manhattan's Chelsea Piers, hosted by the New York Liberty. Your kids can have a ball while getting schooled by the Liberty's star players. 2:00pm

October 26: Get ghoulish with NYC DADS for our Halloween Party in the Lower East Side. There’ll be costume and other gift give-aways, Halloween arts and crafts and trick-or-treat fun. And did we mention there’d be CANDY? So get the kids wickedly wired at the spectacularly spooky Angel Orensanz space at 172 Norfolk Street, south of Houston. 4pm-7pm. You must be on our invitation list so call the phone number below.

Space is limited so call 212-331-6200 for more information on how you can take part in these and other free NYC DADS events.

November 7th: A special group of NYC dads and their kids (six-years-old and over) will attend the Jazz for Young People concert on November 7th, at 3pm. Entitled “Who is Mary Lou Williams?” the show features host Wynton Marsalis and the Lincoln Center Orchestra demonstrating how this leading lady of jazz “created a sum of musical moods that fully reflected the spectrum of jazz.”The concert will take place at the impressive Rose Theater on 60th street and Broadway. If you are an NYC dad and you and your children would like to attend the event, email us at NYCDADS@hra.nyc.gov by October 30th. Please give us your name and contact information, your child’s name and age, as well as a short statement about what jazz means to you and/or your child. There are limited seats available so NYC DADS will notify those who will be able to attend.

December 18: The annual NYC DADS holiday party, featuring arts and crafts, entertainers, face-painters and good food, will be held at the Museum of New York City (103rd & 5th avenue) from 4pm to 7pm.