When Zaire Wells’s daughter was selected for a free childcare slot, it felt like the two-year-old “got into Harvard.”
NYC Mayor Zohran Mamdani proposed free childcare for two-year-olds in his affordability-focused campaign. In March, he announced that it would launch with 2,000 seats in a handful of communities selected for economic need and childcare demand.
Wells, a high school teacher, lives in one of the targeted areas. After a five-minute online application back in June, she and her partner were now tearfully dropping off their daughter for her first day at a Friends of Crown Heights center in Brooklyn. The family posed for pictures with…
