{"id":378347,"date":"2026-10-20T22:44:53","date_gmt":"2026-10-20T22:44:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/378347\/"},"modified":"2026-10-20T22:44:53","modified_gmt":"2026-10-20T22:44:53","slug":"nyc-mayor-mamdani-on-2-k-expansion-the-entire-borough-of-staten-island-will-be-covered-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/378347\/","title":{"rendered":"NYC Mayor Mamdani on 2-K Expansion: \u2018The Entire Borough of Staten Island Will Be Covered\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Free childcare is expanding across Staten Island. New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Governor Kathy Hochul announced the plans. Starting in fall 2027, the 2-K program will cover all of Staten Island and the Bronx, plus select districts in Manhattan, Brooklyn and Queens. The expansion adds 10,000 seats to the full-day, year-round program for 2-year-olds, which began with 2,000 seats earlier this year. The state is backing the expansion with a $1.2 billion investment. Seats per district will depend on provider participation and anticipated family demand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Free childcare is expanding across Staten Island. New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani and Governor Kathy Hochul announced&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":378348,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[9,24,63,134,136,135],"class_list":["post-378347","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-staten-island","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\/378347","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=378347"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/378347\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/378348"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=378347"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=378347"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=378347"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}