Summer Camps in Chelsea, Manhattan

Chelsea punches above its weight for summer camp. Ten programs, a genuine mix, and two absolute standouts that are worth knowing about even if you don’t live in the neighborhood: Chelsea Piers Summer Sports Camp (one of the best multi-sport facilities in the city) and MoMath Summer Camp (yes, the math museum camp, and yes, kids actually love it).

Chelsea Piers is the obvious anchor. The sports complex runs multi-activity summer camps for ages 3–14 at $580–$645/week, using their full athletic facility on the Hudson, pools, field house, rock climbing, gymnastics. It’s not cheap, but the facilities are hard to match anywhere in Manhattan.

MoMath is the one that surprises parents. The National Museum of Mathematics runs Transformations camp for kids ages 6–15 at $1,450/week, which sounds alarming until you realize it’s one of the few programs where mathematically inclined kids are actually surrounded by other mathematically inclined kids, in a building specifically designed to make math feel like play. Worth it if your kid is that kid.