A limited number of spots (2,000 total) will be available<\/a> for toddlers in School Districts 6, 10, 18, 23, and 27, so: Washington Heights, Inwood, Fordham, Kingsbridge, Canarsie, Brownsville, Ocean Hill, Ozone Park, and the Rockaways. These are all poorer neighborhoods in far north Manhattan, the Bronx, east Brooklyn, and south Queens. These spots will mostly be full-day, so from 8 a.m. to 6 p.m., and the program is slated to expand over the next four years to cover the remaining roughly 48,000 2-year-olds who might want a spot.<\/p>\n

Of course, the real Mamdani goal is not just to expand to 2-year-olds, but to cover every child in New York City from 6 weeks of life onward\u2014at extraordinary cost to taxpayers. What this ends up being, in many cases, is a handout from the well-off to the well-off; but note how Mamdani’s 2-K announcement tries to subliminally plant the idea in New Yorkers’ heads, by prioritizing the poor neighborhoods, that actually it’s just a necessary resource for the city’s struggling working-class families.<\/p>\n

More of my reporting on New York’s childcare system and the socialists’ dream of universal everything<\/em>:<\/p>\n