{"id":377813,"date":"2026-10-20T11:34:55","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T11:34:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/377813\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T11:34:55","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T11:34:55","slug":"nyc-expands-free-2-k-childcare-to-the-bronx-and-staten-island-with-10000-more-seats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/377813\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC expands free 2-K childcare to the Bronx and Staten Island with 10,000 more seats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">NEW YORK CITY  (WABC) &#8212; New York City is expanding its free childcare program for 2-year-olds to additional neighborhoods, including all of the Bronx and Staten Island.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Mayor Zohran Mamdani joined Gov. Kathy Hochul and other elected officials Monday to announce the expansion.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Beginning next fall, the city will add 10,000 more 2-K seats, including in 17 additional school districts across the city. The expansion is in addition to the 2,000 children in five districts who began participating in the program this fall.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The mayor said the need for the program is clear.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">City Council Speaker Julie Menin said about 375,000 parents, mainly mothers, left the workforce because they could not find affordable, accessible childcare.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Mamdani said free 2-K will save parents roughly $25,000 a year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">After the expansion, the program will serve 22 of the city&#8217;s 32 school districts.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 WABC-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK CITY (WABC) &#8212; New York City is expanding its free childcare program for 2-year-olds to additional&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":377814,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[138851,9,24,63,134,136,135],"class_list":["post-377813","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-staten-island","tag-138851","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-staten-island","tag-staten-island-headlines","tag-staten-island-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377813","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=377813"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/377813\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/377814"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=377813"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=377813"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=377813"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}