{"id":241313,"date":"2026-05-23T01:11:18","date_gmt":"2026-05-23T01:11:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/241313\/"},"modified":"2026-05-23T01:11:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-23T01:11:18","slug":"nyc-saw-a-decline-in-childcare-applications-mamdani-admin-weighs-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/241313\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC saw a decline in childcare applications: Mamdani admin weighs in"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">NEW YORK CITY (PIX11) \u2014 Free <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/articles\/pre-k-3-k-offers-145657112.html\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:childcare offers;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;childcare offers&quot;}\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">childcare offers<\/a> went out to New York City families this week, as Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced additional 3-K seats. But despite all the attention on child care, applications were down this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Emmy Liss, Executive Director of the Office of Child Care and Early Childhood Education, joined PIX on Politics with Dan Mannarino about the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/articles\/childcare-access-being-doubled-3-195053437.html\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:expansion of childcare programs;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;expansion of childcare programs&quot;}\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">expansion of childcare programs<\/a> \u2014 and why applications would be down.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/pix11.com\/news\/politics\/pixonpolitics\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:More News: PIX on Politics;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;More News&quot;}\"> More News: PIX on Politics <\/a><\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Liss said it\u2019s important to have the seats available as the administration tries to get the message out to more people. She attributed some of the application drop-off to families losing confidence in the program.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Watch the video player for the full interview.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Copyright 2026 Nexstar Media, Inc. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten, or redistributed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a href=\"https:\/\/pix11.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"elm:link;elmt:article_link;slk:For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to PIX11.;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to PIX11.&quot;}\" class=\"link \"> For the latest news, weather, sports, and streaming video, head to PIX11. <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK CITY (PIX11) \u2014 Free childcare offers went out to New York City families this week, as&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":241314,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[1581,94273,3204,41803,9,56,63,65,64,82],"class_list":["post-241313","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-applications","tag-childcare-programs","tag-dan-mannarino","tag-emmy-liss","tag-new-york","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-nyc-headlines","tag-nyc-news","tag-zohran-mamdani"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241313","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=241313"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241313\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241313"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241313"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241313"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}