{"id":215703,"date":"2026-04-30T18:08:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-30T18:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/215703\/"},"modified":"2026-04-30T18:08:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-30T18:08:09","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-mayor-mamdani-launches-child-care-pilot-program-for-nyc-workers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/215703\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | Mayor Mamdani Launches Child Care Pilot Program For Nyc Workers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">New York City is launching a new child care pilot program for city workers.<\/p>\n<p>Mayor Zohran Mamdani and city officials say applications are now open for The Little Apple, a free full-day care program for eligible employees.<\/p>\n<p>The pilot program is said to serve about 40 children inside the David N. Dinkings municipal building ages 6 weeks to 3 years old.<\/p>\n<p>The program will provide year-round care Mondays through Fridays from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. A $10 million renovation is underway to construct the child care facility, and is expected to be completed in fall 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Applications for eligible families are <a data-rich-text-hyperlink=\"true\" href=\"https:\/\/a856-thelittleapple.nyc.gov\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">open online<\/a> now through May 15.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York City is launching a new child care pilot program for city workers. Mayor Zohran Mamdani and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":215664,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-215703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215703","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=215703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215703\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}