Outdoor classroom now open at New Cassel park

A new outdoor classroom has opened to the public at Martin “Bunky” Reid Park in New Cassel.

The Town of North Hempstead hosted a ribbon cutting to dedicate the playground area, which promotes learning while incorporating playing outdoors. The area includes a stage and performance area, tables for art projects, and a movement and music area with real instruments.

The park is at Broadway and Urban avenues. For more information, call 516-869-6311.

By Beth Whitehouse

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Beth Whitehouse writes about families, parenting and great things to do with the kids on Long Island. She’s been a Newsday editor and shared a 1997 Newsday staff Pulitzer Prize for coverage of the crash of TWA Flight 800.