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Best Summer Camps in NYC with Weekly Enrollment

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2/24/25 - By Drew Kristofik

Families who need flexible summer camp plans are in luck: New York City is home to tons of summer day camps offering weekly enrollment. Whether travel plans mean you can't commit to a camp for the whole season or your kids have more than one passion to pursue, these local NYC summer camps with weekly enrollment make it easy to create an enriching summer camp experience no matter your kids' interests or your family's schedule.

Our picks for top summer camps in NYC with weekly enrollment include summer camps in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Queens, and the Bronx. We've rounded up 18 summer day camps in NYC below but you can always find more summer camps, including free and cheap summer camps, great sleepaway summer camps in the Northeast, and teen-friendly summer camps by bookmarking our New York City Summer Camp Guide and our Camp Directory, where you can search for summer camps by type, age, and borough.

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Sports Summer Camps in NYC with Weekly Enrollment

Super Duper Tennis

Multiple Manhattan Locations
Ages 4-10
Super Duper Tennis uses child-friendly equipment to make tennis more accessible and easier to learn for kids ages 4-10. The program emphasizes teaching the fun-damentals of tennis in a positive, educational, and exciting environment that builds self-esteem, confidence, and a lasting love for the game. Teaching techniques are kept simple, using tennis terminology young players can understand and relate to. READ MORE

Tim Morehouse Fencing Club - NYC

Upper West Side
Ages 7-16
Named for the Olympic fencer and coach behind the program, Tim Morehouse Fencing Club offers summer camps and lessons across a variety of fencing disciplines. Sessions include both footwork and blade work, plus strategy, mental training, and team-building exercises. READ MORE

Chelsea Piers Summer Sports Camp

Chelsea and Prospect Heights, Brooklyn
Ages 3-17
Chelsea Piers features a variety of unique sports camps during summer and school breaks. Sports offered include gymnastics, ice skating/hockey, parkour, soccer, golf, and more. Half-day and full-day options, short weeks, aftercare, and more are offered. READ MORE

Aviator Sports Day Camp

Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn
Ages 4-15
Aviator's summer day camp offers traditional activities, including arts and crafts, drama, science, and swimming, plus unique specialties including ice skating, rock climbing, and more—all within its 175,000-square-foot sports complex. School break camps are also offered.  READ MORE

QBK Sports - Beach Volleyball Camp & Classes

Long Island City, Queens
Ages 9-16
Located in the heart of Long Island City, QBK Sports Beach Volleyball Camp immerses older kids in a fun, beach-like environment while playing one of the fastest-growing college sports in the country and improving hand-eye coordination, reflexes, and balance. All skill levels are welcome.  READ MORE

Fastbreak Sports Camps

Upper East Side
Ages 2-18
Camp at Fastbreak goes way beyond basketball. Depending on your child's age and interest, kids are schooled in multiple sports, and camp sessions include field games, arts and crafts, and plenty more. Serious athletes can opt for its Elite Training Academy track. School break and summer camps are offered by Fastbreak.  READ MORE

Arts Summer Camps in NYC with Weekly Enrollment

Bloomingdale School of Music

Upper West Side
Ages 4-16
Bloomingdale offers a variety of music classes for students of all ages in its newly renovated and air-conditioned brownstone. During the summer, families can choose from week-long workshops. Instrument intensives are available for strings and piano. All workshops are led by expert-vetted professional teaching artists. Financial aid is available. READ MORE

Camp Broadway

Midtown West
Ages 7-17
Founded in 1995 and recognized as one of Broadway’s original summer camps, Camp Broadway’s mission is to make theatre arts an accessible and relevant vehicle for creative children to build confidence, hone presentation skills, and discover their unique talents at every stage of their lives. Lessons in singing, movement, storytelling, and scenic and costume design are shared with young campers, while older kids learn staging, choreography, and music direction.  READ MORE

TADA! Youth Theater - Camps & Classes

Chelsea
Ages 5-12
TADA! offers fun, interactive, musical theater classes and camps for kids of all ages and from all backgrounds. Its musical theater programs aim to build creativity through high-quality productions. Summer and school break camps are offered. Financial aid aims to make arts education at TADA! accessible to all.  READ MORE

Art Studio NY

Upper West Side
Ages 6-18
Art Studio NY offers nurturing, engaging, and fun kids’ art classes and summer art camps that allow your child's creativity to soar. Geared toward kids and teens, Art Studio NY provides customized, one-on-one instruction by professional NYC artists.  READ MORE

Brooklyn Conservatory of Music

Park Slope, Brooklyn
Ages 5-18
The Brooklyn Conservatory of Music offers a variety of summer camp programs, including piano explorers, winds, brass, percussion, vocal camp, and a jazz camp. Financial aid is available. READ MORE

Educational and STEM Summer Camps in NYC with Weekly Enrollment

Writopia Lab Summer Camp

Upper West Side and Park Slope, Brooklyn
Ages 9-18
Full- and half-day writing summer camps are offered at Writopia Lab, whose mission centers on sharing the stories of the children it caters to in order to help them foster joy, critical thinking, and literacy through the creative writing process. School-year classes, college essay-writing workshops, journalism classes, and a debate team are also sponsored by this multi-faceted organization. A unique, sliding-scale policy ensures no child is ever turned away from its programs. READ MORE

Marymount Summer

Upper East Side
Ages 3 1/2-14
Marymount Summer has been offering specialty camps for more than 30 years. Many of its camps are run out of its landmarked building on Fifth Avenue and utilize Central Park for an indoor-outdoor experience. Campers can register for a variety of programs, including world explorers, drama, and STEAM camp. Some specialty programs require multi-week commitments.  READ MORE

iCAMP STEAM Summer Camps

Multiple Manhattan Locations
Ages 3-13
iCAMP is a holistic STEAM program where campers learn by doing. Students become creators at iCAMP’s summer camp, which focuses on teaching STEAM topics like coding, robotics, studio and graphic art, science, filmmaking, video game design, 3D printing, and more. READ MORE

Tip-Top Brain Learning Center - Classes & STEAM Camps

Astoria, Queens
Ages 5-14
Tip-Top Brain's summer STEAM camps offer an academically minded, effective preparation for the upcoming school year. Help kids avoid the summer brain drain while acquiring new skills like foundational math, reading, and writing concepts. Younger students are immersed in play-based activities, arts and crafts, read-alouds, science experiments, games, and much more. READ MORE

Traditional Summer Camps in NYC with Weekly Enrollment

Camp Corlears

Chelsea
Ages 3-10
Camp Corlears is all about giving children space outdoors to play, run, and laugh with friends. Counselors are primarily Corlears teachers, and three distinct camp programs are offered for different age groups, starting with preschool. Each camp session is one week long. READ MORE

Park Slope Day Camp

Park Slope, Brooklyn
Ages 4-13
Park Slope Day Camp provides kids entering pre-K to 8th grade with a wide variety of activities, including traditional day camp, circus camp, travel camp, and sports academies. Plenty of time is spent outdoors in local parks. School break mini-camps are offered. READ MORE

The Trinity School Discovery Day Camp

Upper West Side
Ages 5-11
The Trinity Discovery Day Camp provides a summer of fun, exploration, and discovery. Campers engage with each other and enjoy an action-packed schedule, including swimming, golf, chess, Lego robotics, art, dance, multisports, and storytelling. Of course, ice cream or ices punctuate the fun every day. READ MORE

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Drew Kristofik
Drew Kristofik’s career took a twist from editing teen magazines to a seven-year stint at MacNeil/Lehrer, followed by a long run at Nickelodeon/Viacom as Director of Content for Nick Online and Editor-in-Chief of ParentsConnect.com. A founding member of the Webby Award-winning GoCityKids, she’s written for Family Fun, Vanity Fair, and New York. Her middle school novel, The Time Boat, is available on Amazon Kindle. Drew keeps the MommyPoppins New York Events calendar spot-on and can be reached at events@mommypoppins.com.
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