{"id":180004,"date":"2026-03-30T19:32:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-30T19:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/180004\/"},"modified":"2026-03-30T19:32:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-30T19:32:10","slug":"nyc-launching-free-child-care-for-some-municipal-workers-this-fall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/180004\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC launching free child care for some municipal workers this fall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-block-key=\"7bax0\">The Mamdani administration is inviting certain municipal employees with young children to apply for free child care, as part of a city pilot program launching this fall.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"1eqfp\">The child care program will be on-site at the David N. Dinkins building at 1 Centre Street and is open to all 2,000 employees in the building, as well as all <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nyc.gov\/site\/dcas\/about\/our-mission.page\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">Department of Citywide Administrative Services<\/a> employees, regardless of where they are based.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"ahvil\">\u201cWe never want city workers to have to choose between a job that they love and raising their kids in the family in the city that they call home,\u201d Mamdani said during a press conference Monday.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"4nbc2\">Former Mayor Eric Adams <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nyc.gov\/mayors-office\/news\/2025\/10\/mayor-adams-continues-to-make-nyc-the-best-place-to-raise-a-fami\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">first announced the pilot program<\/a> in October, but Mamdani said he\u2019s adding $2.3 million in operating funds to the program and making every employee who works in the building eligible, rather than only administrative services workers.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"6s2u\">It\u2019s the <a href=\"https:\/\/gothamist.com\/news\/new-yorkers-are-thinking-about-having-kids-with-hope-mamdani-will-make-child-care-free\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">latest effort by the Mamdani administration<\/a> to make child care more affordable for working families. Mamdani is also launching free care for 2,000 2-year-olds this fall and boosting the number of existing spaces in the city\u2019s free 3-K program for 3-year-olds.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"2tr96\">City workers can apply beginning April 30. Employees must be full-time and be a parent or guardian of a child between six weeks and 3 years old.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"2bnof\">Parents will be notified in June and those who don\u2019t receive one of the 40 slots will be placed on a wait list. The program will be located on the ground floor of the North Tower and is currently undergoing a $10 million renovation.<\/p>\n<p data-block-key=\"4636m\">The program\u2019s provider has not been announced, but care will be provided year-round and from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. That\u2019s a contrast to the city\u2019s existing preschool programs that only offer free care during the school year and during school hours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Mamdani administration is inviting certain municipal employees with young children to apply for free child care, as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":180005,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[9,56,63,65,64],"class_list":{"0":"post-180004","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york-city","8":"tag-new-york","9":"tag-ny","10":"tag-nyc","11":"tag-nyc-headlines","12":"tag-nyc-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180004","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=180004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180004\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/180005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}