19+ hour, 13+ min ago  (663+ words) New York City Mayor Mamdani on Thursday announced the opening of an Upper East Side preschool that was completed last summer, but failed to open this school year " despite parents clamoring for free child care in the tony neighborhood. The…...

2+ week, 6+ day ago  (522+ words) Two weeks into his preschool registration blitz, Mayor Mamdani said 50,000 New York City families had applied for 3-K and pre-K as of Friday, a number that was "currently in line" with the application pool at this time last year. Despite…...

1+ mon, 3+ day ago  (535+ words) This is what home-based child care looks like in New York City: intimate, personal, flexible, and absolutely essential. And yet, as the city prepares to build a universal child care system, it is the form of care most at risk…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (766+ words) Gov. Hochul said Tuesday she expects New York City's 2-Care program will serve a total of about 30,000 kids " thousands of slots short of what advocates say is needed for Mayor Mamdani to fulfill his pledge of a truly universal child-care…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (411+ words) For generations, the hardworking New Yorkers who have built our city were drawn here, or stayed here, because of access to opportunity and jobs. To be clear, that doesn't mean a handout. It means common sense improvements to help them…...

1+ mon, 1+ week ago  (1081+ words) Gov. Hochul pledged Thursday to help New York City establish a free child care program for 2-year-olds, a major step toward implementing one of Mayor Mamdani's key campaign promises but without raising taxes as she gears up for re-election. It's…...

2+ mon, 5+ day ago  (398+ words) Park advocates are ramping up pressure on Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani to quickly get to work on his promise to earmark 1% of the city government's budget for spending on New York City public parks. New Yorkers for Parks and the Play…...

3+ mon, 1+ week ago  (940+ words) The City Council on Thursday endorsed Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani's call for the state to pony up more money for childcare programs in the Big Apple " and laid out a series of suggestions for how he could make the system as…...

4+ mon, 5+ day ago  (249+ words) Working families in America are facing impossible choices as access to high-quality child care is increasingly beyond their reach. The crushing cost of child care emerged as a top issue in the New York City mayoral race and the same…...

9+ mon, 1+ day ago  (658+ words) New York City plans to pony up new funding for child care assistance, narrowly avoiding a doomsday scenario for now where tens of thousands of families could have lost access to their vouchers. During a City Council hearing Monday on…...