{"id":235364,"date":"2026-05-18T15:16:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-18T15:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/235364\/"},"modified":"2026-05-18T15:16:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-18T15:16:08","slug":"city-to-add-2000-3-k-seats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/235364\/","title":{"rendered":"City to add 2000 3-K seats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CITYWIDE \u2013 NEW YORK CITY will add 2,000 new preschool and daycare seats for three-year-olds across all five boroughs, Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced on Monday. Community-based providers will house a majority of the new seats.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Roughly 700 families remained on the waitlist after the city\u2019s 3-K application update period closed on April 24, and will automatically be given seats. All previous applicants will receive an offer on Tuesday, May 19.<\/p>\n<p>The city will also launch a new waitlist, allowing families to express interest in new sites and to potentially receive an offer at a preferred program closer to home or with siblings. Families can continue adding themselves to waitlists for all programs, and seats will be offered based on availability.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, after years of community demand, the Mamdani administration announced a new early childhood education center with 63 seats <a href=\"https:\/\/brooklyneagle.com\/374665\/parents-demand-city-open-completed-135-seat-pre-k-center-on-van-brunt-street\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">on Van Brunt Street<\/a> in the Columbia Waterfront area, after the previous administration left the building vacant, City Hall said. This marks the ninth previously vacant child care center opened by the administration.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\u2730\u2730\u2730<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> <a style=\"font-size: inherit; background-color: #fefefe;\" href=\"https:\/\/brooklyneagle.com\/whats-news-breaking\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wnb-read-more aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/read-more-wnb-shad-1024x341.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"341\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CITYWIDE \u2013 NEW YORK CITY will add 2,000 new preschool and daycare seats for three-year-olds across all five&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":235365,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[3302,5287,20456,9,24,55,54,56,82],"class_list":["post-235364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-breaking","tag-child-care","tag-kids-youth","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-ny","tag-zohran-mamdani"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235364","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=235364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235364\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}