Bored? Don't be. Be outdoors! Consider this NYTimes list of FREE and (relatively) low cost summer 2014 suggestions...

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/25/nyregion/what-to-do-in-new-york-city-in-summer-2014.html?_r=0&module=ArrowsNav&contentCollection=N.Y.%20%2F%20Region&action=keypress&region=FixedLeft&pgtype=article

For the first time since public access began in 2004, Governors Island will be open seven days a week, with 30 newly landscaped acres of park equipped with 50 red hammocks, two natural ball fields and site-specific art by Mark Handforth and Susan Philipsz. Bring your own bike or take advantage of Free Bike Mornings, borrowing one for an hour between 10 a.m. and noon on weekdays (May 24-Sept. 28, $2 round-trip ferry for adults, free for children under 12, govisland.com). Biking works up an appetite, hence A Bikeable Feast, combining a 90-minute ride through the vistas of Greenpoint and Williamsburg with a four-course meal with wine at North Brooklyn Farm near the base of the Williamsburg Bridge (alternating Saturdays May 31-Aug. 9, $140, getupandride.com). Those who feel that the ride itself is the destination can show up for Brooklyn Critical Mass, a slightly less militant iteration of its Manhattan cousin, wheeling into its 10th year. The second Friday of every month, bicyclists gather at Grand Army Plaza near Prospect Park at 7 p.m. and dominate the streets to show what pollution-free transportation looks like (June 13, July 11, Aug. 8, free, times-up.org). To work all your muscle groups, there’s no greater outdoor gym than the Central Park Circuit in the East Meadow, a first-come-first-served class that meets several evenings over the summer. Top trainers devise workouts around the park’s hills, dales and rocks (through August, free, centralparknyc.org). Catch-and-release fishing at the park’s Harlem Meer is a more meditative pastime. Fishing poles can be borrowed and bait is free at the Charles A. Dana Center on the meer’s north shore at 109th Street (Tuesday-Sunday, centralparknyc.org). Farther north, in the Bronx, birders gather at Van Cortlandt Park Nature Center on Saturday mornings. Members of the Audubon Society lead walks and help identify a wide range of species (through August, free, nycaudubon.org). A new waterside activity for landlubbers arrives when the Grand Banks schooner Sherman Zwicker, built in 1942, drops anchor at Pier 25, Hudson River Park at North Moore Street. Visits are free, though there is a charge for onboard oysters and drinks from the Brooklyn tastemaker Mark Firth, co-founder of Marlow & Sons (June 15-Oct. 31, grandbanks.org). Fans of pro sports have a full plate of baseball teams, World Cup soccer matches and United States Open Tennis champions to cheer for, but you can root for the little guys, too, like the Brooklyn Cyclones (brooklyncyclones.com) in Coney Island and the Staten Island Yankees (milb.com) in St. George. Or rustle up your own game at Brooklyn Bridge Park’s newly opened Pier 2, with five acres of basketball, handball and bocce courts (150 Furman Street,brooklynbridgepark.org). Spectators inclined toward a different kind of intensity can indulge in a Gotham Girls Roller Derby match. The league, now in its 10th year, will have its biggest face-off of the summer with the Manhattan Mayhem against the Queens of Pain (John Jay College of Criminal Justice Gymnasium, 524 West 59th Street, June 7, $19.99,gothamgirlsrollerderby.com).