Our city’s child care costs rank among the highest in the nation, so every New Yorker knows a family member, a friend, or a colleague who has struggled to afford child care. From the earliest days of our administration, we have made affordable child care a priority and have said again and again that working-class New York City families should not have to choose between child care and putting food on the table.
Now, we are making our city more family-friendly by launching New York City’s first-ever Municipal Child Care Pilot Program. The program will provide affordable child care for employees of the Department of Citywide Administrative Services — right where they work. We are achieving this by turning underutilized city-owned space into on-site, free child care centers for our workers. So even as they are doing their own jobs, city employees will know that their children are nearby, well looked after, and safe. The program will begin in September 2026, and — along with another $10-million investment we made in a groundbreaking pilot program to provide free child care for children from low-income families aged two and under — more quickly puts our city on the path to universal child care.
