{"id":154028,"date":"2026-03-05T14:57:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-05T14:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/154028\/"},"modified":"2026-03-05T14:57:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-05T14:57:08","slug":"watch-mamdani-press-conference-today-on-child-care-nbc-new-york","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/154028\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Mamdani press conference today on child care \u2013 NBC New York"},"content":{"rendered":"

New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Gov. Kathy Hochul are appearing together Thursday for the second time in three days as they build on their universal childcare agenda.<\/a><\/p>\n

Earlier in the week, Mamdani and Hochul announced the first four communities to receive free 2-K seats this fall. There’s one in every borough except one: Staten Island.<\/a> The city says this rollout is just a start; the plan is to expand the program universally within four years. Staten Islanders, still mad about the blizzard, aren’t pleased.<\/a><\/p>\n

Hochul has committed over $1.2 billion to support early child care in the city. That two-year plan includes $73 million to fund the first set of free 2-K seats this fall. That investment will grow to $425 million next year. By the fall of 2027, the universal pre-K program is expected to cover about 12,000 kids across New York City.<\/p>\n

Beyond those two years, funding for the program isn’t clear.<\/p>\n

Thursday’s briefing looks to build on Tuesday’s announcement by providing hard data to support the effort. City and state leaders agree it’s an urgent one.<\/p>\n

Hochul is expected to hold a Q&A on Thursday, whereas on Tuesday, her team said she had to leave, and the mayor took off-topic questions after she left. It’s unclear if Mamdani will take questions on Thursday as well.<\/p>\n

He has been asked tough questions in recent days, particularly regarding his stance on Iran.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Gov. Kathy Hochul are appearing together Thursday for the second time…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":151176,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[67,426,9,24,11,10,5530],"class_list":{"0":"post-154028","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-education","9":"tag-kathy-hochul","10":"tag-new-york","11":"tag-new-york-city","12":"tag-new-york-headlines","13":"tag-new-york-news","14":"tag-nyc-schools"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154028","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=154028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/154028\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/151176"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=154028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=154028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=154028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}