{"id":37299,"date":"2025-11-12T17:26:34","date_gmt":"2025-11-12T17:26:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/37299\/"},"modified":"2025-11-12T17:26:34","modified_gmt":"2025-11-12T17:26:34","slug":"mayor-eric-adams-introduces-a-new-york-twist-on-finlands-baby-boxes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/37299\/","title":{"rendered":"Mayor Eric Adams Introduces a New York Twist on Finland’s Baby Boxes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Two weeks before his election as mayor, Zohran Mamdani held about the cutest press conference you can imagine: Surrounded by babies, and backed by a blue climbing structure, he announced that he would launch citywide \u201cbaby baskets<\/a>,\u201d welcoming the 125,000 babies born in New York City each year with a free collection of essential supplies. Brooklyn Borough President Antonio Reynoso, who sponsored a pilot program of 500 \u201cBorn in Brooklyn<\/a>\u201d baby boxes in 2022, introduced Mamdani, saying, \u201cThis is a sacred act to have a baby \u2026 We want to make sure the last thing you are thinking about is a box of diapers.\u201d<\/p>\n

Left unmentioned was the fact that, just a week earlier, Mamdani\u2019s onetime opponent, sitting Mayor Eric Adams, had launched his own baby box program<\/a> at four of the city\u2019s public hospitals \u2014 two in the Bronx, one in Brooklyn, and one in Queens \u2014 where more than 7,000 babies are delivered each year. The cost of the NYC Health + Hospitals program is $2.6 million for year one, funded through city tax dollars. The boxes themselves are provided by Welcome Baby USA<\/a>, a nonprofit organization founded by Sarah Gould Steinhardt in 2019 that had already been providing a smaller number of care packages to Jacobi Medical Center, one of the Bronx launch sites. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Two weeks before his election as mayor, Zohran Mamdani held about the cutest press conference you can imagine:…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37300,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[21723,98,288,3339,5869,5867,21722,21724,9,24,55,54,56,10706,3610,21725],"class_list":["post-37299","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york-city","tag-box","tag-brooklyn","tag-business","tag-cities","tag-citylab","tag-design","tag-finland","tag-goodnight","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-city-headlines","tag-new-york-city-news","tag-ny","tag-perspective","tag-public-health","tag-wendy-clarke-wilcox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37299","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=37299"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37299\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37300"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37299"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37299"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37299"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}