{"id":267832,"date":"2026-06-15T21:20:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T21:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/267832\/"},"modified":"2026-06-15T21:20:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T21:20:08","slug":"mayor-mamdami-visits-mosholu-montefiore-community-center-to-help-parents-enroll-in-2-k-bronx-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/267832\/","title":{"rendered":"Mayor Mamdami visits Mosholu Montefiore Community Center to help parents enroll in 2-K \u2013 Bronx Times"},"content":{"rendered":"

Mayor Zohran Mamdani met Bronx families at the Mosholu-Montefiore Community Center (MMCC) on June 11 to help enroll those eligible to his 2-K program.<\/a> The\u00a0initial launch will be available for 2,000 families.\u00a0<\/p>\n

The program is at its pilot stage for families in high-need school zones, such as: Fordham, Belmont, Norwood, Marble Hill, Morris Heights, Riverdale, Spuyten Duyvil, Van Cortlandt Village and Kingsbridge, as well as parts of Kingsbridge Heights, Bedford Park, Mount Hope, Claremont- Bathgate and East Tremont.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is another exciting and important moment for early childhood education in New York City,\u201d said Schools Chancellor Kamar Samuels. \u201cWe\u2019re taking a thoughtful approach to giving our youngest learners a strong foundation, one that begins with listening to our community partners and responding to where families need us most.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

The goal of the 2-K program is to build a reliable early educational foundation to offer eligible New Yorkers a sense of economic relief to working-class families across the borough.\u00a0<\/p>\n

Norwood resident Nikki Brown emphasized the program\u2019s significance \u2014 when she had her first child, she struggled for find affordable childcare and now has the opportunity to utilize the 2-K program for her second child, one-year-old Journee Brown, ahead of the upcoming school term.<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u201cIt\u2019s a great lift off of my shoulders and getting back to the workforce,\u201d Brown told the Bronx Times. \u201cIt\u2019s a great relief for all of our moms\u2014 as we worry about our kids.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"\"\u201cThis is another exciting and important moment for early childhood education in New York City,\u201d said Schools Chancellor Kamar Samuels. \u201cWe\u2019re taking a thoughtful approach to giving our youngest learners a strong foundation, one that begins with listening to our community partners and responding to where families need us most.\u201d\u00a0Photo by Beyonce Thomas-Reynoso<\/p>\n

Senator Gustavo Rivera, who represents the 33rd district, stressed the importance of MMCC to the community as it serves a full-horizon of different aged New Yorkers, from older adults to pre-k and childcare.<\/p>\n

\u201cKnowing that this program is gonna be rolled out throughout the rest of the city, but starting in the neighborhoods that are in my district \u2013 which I\u2019m incredibly thankful for,\u201d Rivera said.<\/p>\n

In a conversation with the Bronx Times, Riviera spoke about how the Northeast Bronx faces issues of accessing affordable childcare, including children getting access to services.<\/p>\n

Mike Halpern, Assistant Executive Director of MMCC, said the center will continue to assist families with registration.\n<\/p>\n

\u201cAs a fixture in the community, we take pride in assisting the community with services that help them thrive,\u201d Halpern said.\n<\/p>\n

\u201cWe believe that the 2-K program is an important service to help the community, whether it is a working parent or it is simply for helping the children\u2019s academic journey begin, programs of this sort is everything that MMCC focuses on.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mayor Zohran Mamdani met Bronx families at the Mosholu-Montefiore Community Center (MMCC) on June 11 to help enroll…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":267833,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38],"tags":[10883,128,19288,41579,22925,103483,103484,9,24,11038,63,129,131,130],"class_list":["post-267832","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-the-bronx","tag-2-k","tag-bronx","tag-gustavo-rivera","tag-kamar-samuels","tag-mayor-zohran-mamdani","tag-mmcc","tag-mosholu-montefiore-community-center","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-norwood","tag-nyc","tag-the-bronx","tag-the-bronx-headlines","tag-the-bronx-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267832","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=267832"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267832\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/267833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=267832"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=267832"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=267832"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}