Tickets: $5. 'ADOPT-A-PET,' adoption and pet care fair, Sunday from noon to 5 p.m. in Propect Park in Brooklyn, reachable from the entrance at Prospect Park West and 15th Street.
SAND SCULPTURE WORKSHOP, led by Andy Gertler, Sunday from 1 to 4 p.m. in the Traveling Rings Sandbox in Riverside Park, reachable from Riverside Drive and 103rd Street.
Unlike FaceTime, it works on both Android and iOS, unlike Skype you don't need to sign in to become reachable.
Tomorrow at 11 a.m., Diane Wolkstein will tell stories in Rector Park, reachable by the Rector Street Bridge in Lower Manhattan.
Two are in the center of the city, three in easily reachable and pleasant neighborhoods.
Great Hill in Central Park, reachable from Central Park West and 106th Street, centralparknyc.org; free.
NEW YORK IS BOOK COUNTRY, Sunday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., Naumberg Bandshell, in Central Park, reachable from 72nd Street.
"A PRINCESS, AN EMPEROR AND A DUCK," tales by Hans Christian Andersen, at the Swedish Cottage Marionette Theater in Central Park, reachable from West 81st Street or East 79th Street, (212) 988-9093.
Many people swim, but many more dive into the salsa scene at this huge, crescent-shaped beach on the Long Island Sound in Pelham Bay Park, reachable by the No. 6 train.
It begins at 10 30 a.m. at Clinton Cove in Hudson River Park, reachable from West 55th Street and the Hudson River Greenway; games, snacks and family activities will follow.
