{"id":376995,"date":"2026-10-19T16:38:26","date_gmt":"2026-10-19T16:38:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/376995\/"},"modified":"2026-10-19T16:38:26","modified_gmt":"2026-10-19T16:38:26","slug":"nycs-2-k-program-to-expand-to-every-borough-next-fall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/376995\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC\u2019s 2-K program to expand to every borough next fall"},"content":{"rendered":"

New York City\u2019s free 2-K program will expand to all five boroughs next fall, including every school district in the Bronx and on Staten Island, Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Gov. Kathy Hochul said Monday.<\/p>\n

The expansion will give more than 12,000 children access to 2-K, up from the 2,000 who got seats during this year\u2019s initial rollout<\/a>, Mamdani said at a news conference.<\/p>\n

Twenty-two of the city\u2019s 32 school districts will be part of the program once the rollout happens, he noted. \u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cThis truly historic announcement will save parents more than $25,000 per child per year, while transforming the lives of children by giving them the strong foundation they need to succeed,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cNext year, when placements are announced, families in the Bronx, on Staten Island, across our city will feel an enormous weight lifted off their shoulders,\u201d he added. \u201cAnd next winter, and over every year to come, our city will remain somewhere that parents can afford to live, to work, and to raise a family without having to sacrifice their careers, without having to move away from the neighborhoods that they love.\u201d<\/p>\n

The expansion will add seats in Manhattan, Brooklyn and Queens, while increasing capacity in the five districts where 2-K launched: District 6 in Manhattan, District 10 in the Bronx, Districts 18 and 23 in Brooklyn and District 27 in Queens, the mayor\u2019s office said in a release.<\/p>\n

It will also cover all of Staten Island and every Bronx school district, the release said.<\/p>\n

The expansion is part of the Mamdani administration\u2019s broader push to expand access to childcare. Earlier this month, the city moved more than 10,000 children<\/a> off a waitlist for free childcare vouchers.<\/p>\n

The city said it will announce more details about the 2-K application timeline in the coming weeks.<\/p>\n

A full list of the Manhattan, Brooklyn and Queens school districts that will be getting free 2-K seats for the first time next fall is below:<\/p>\n

Manhattan<\/p>\n

School District 4:\u00a0East Harlem; Randall\u2019s Island
\nSchool District 5: Central Harlem; East Harlem; Manhattanville \/ West Harlem; Morningside Heights; Hamilton Heights \/ Sugar Hill<\/p>\n

Brooklyn<\/p>\n

School District 16:\u00a0Bedford-Stuyvesant, including Stuyvesant Heights; as well as parts of northern Crown Heights and Ocean Hill
\nSchool District 17: Crown Heights; Prospect Lefferts Gardens; Wingate; Prospect Heights; Flatbush; East Flatbush; as well as parts of Erasmus, Farragut, Rugby, Remsen Village, Ocean Hill and Brownsville
\nSchool District 19: East New York; New Lots; Cypress Hills; City Line; Spring Creek; Starrett City; as well as parts of Ocean Hill, Brownsville and Canarsie
\nSchool District 20: Bay Ridge; Fort Hamilton; Dyker Heights; Bath Beach; as well as parts of Bensonhurst, Borough Park, Sunset Park, Kensington, Gravesend, Mapleton \/ western Midwood and western Flatbush
\nSchool District 21: Coney Island; Sea Gate; Brighton Beach; Gravesend; Homecrest; Mapleton \/ Ocean Parkway; Midwood; as well as parts of Bensonhurst, Borough Park, Madison and western Flatbush
\nSchool District 32: Bushwick; as well as parts of East Williamsburg and northern Bedford-Stuyvesant<\/p>\n

Queens<\/p>\n

School District 24: Corona, including North Corona; Elmhurst; Maspeth; Middle Village; Ridgewood; Glendale; Sunnyside; Woodside; as well as parts of Jackson Heights, East Elmhurst, Rego Park, Woodhaven, Forest Hills and Long Island City
\nSchool District 28: Rego Park; Forest Hills; Kew Gardens; Briarwood; Jamaica Hills; Jamaica; South Jamaica; Richmond Hill; South Richmond Hill; South Ozone Park; Baisley Park; Rochdale Village; Springfield Gardens; as well as parts of Kew Gardens Hills, Hillcrest, St. Albans, Glendale, Corona and Elmhurst
\nSchool District 29: Queens Village; Cambria Heights; Hollis; St. Albans; Laurelton; Rosedale; Springfield Gardens; Brookville; portions of Bellerose, Jamaica Estates, Holliswood, Hillcrest, Jamaica Hills, Jamaica and South Jamaica<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"New York City\u2019s free 2-K program will expand to all five boroughs next fall, including every school district…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":376996,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[203,109,25,67,576,9,24,12,63,87,134,136,135,27],"class_list":["post-376995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-staten-island","tag-app-education","tag-app-local-state-politics","tag-app-top-stories","tag-education","tag-erica-brosnan","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news","tag-nyc","tag-politics","tag-staten-island","tag-staten-island-headlines","tag-staten-island-news","tag-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376995","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=376995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/376995\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/376996"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=376995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=376995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=376995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}