Avril, I dont know where in NY your friend is, there are alot of sites
upstate in NY around Albany, though I dont know the specifics it
should be easy to find on the net.

However, if they are in the New York city area and have access to a
car, here are two places not far away in Suburban NJ that are kid
friendly (though ages 2 and 4 may be a bit of a stretch), certainly
close supervision is warranted:

Lifted from a quick net search:
There are two sites in Monmouth county, NJ for shark's teeth. The best
is Big Brook. Access is at the bridge at Boundary Road in Marlboro.
The other site is Poricy Brook in Poricy Park. Poricy park is a county
park & collecting is encouraged in the stream bed. In addition to
shark's teeth, both sites produce belemnitella americana, exogyra, ray
crusher pavements & rarely mosasaur bone fragments & jaw parts.

(i have been to both these sites, the latter with my kids, but they
were quite a bit older at the time)- using the names above you should
be able to get more info. on location/directions etc, I dont have the
information any longer.Kids would need to be watched closely as there
is running water at both sites. As noted, Poricey  is now actually a
state park- there was no park years ago when I went there, and the Big
Brook site is fairly well known, so with luck they may be able to
latch onto an organized outing of some kind at those sites.

Steve

On 9/9/09, Avril Bourquin <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> I have a mother with 2 young sons (2 and 4) wondering if there is a family
> safe place they can hunt for fossils.
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> I will forward the answer/s on to her.
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> Thank you once again for your time and help
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