Mamdani Doubles 3-K Childcare Expansion — 2,000 New Seats Added Citywide for Fall 2026, Plus New Columbia Waterfront Brooklyn Center (63 Seats); Waitlist Opens Mon on myschools.nyc

Mon May 18 announcement: Mamdani is adding ~2,000 additional 3-K seats across the five boroughs for fall 2026, doubling the initial expansion commitment. Most new seats come through community-based childcare partnerships, designed to fix mismatches where families were assigned to programs far from their homes while other neighborhoods had empty seats. A new early-childhood education center in Brooklyn's Columbia Waterfront opens with 63 new 3-K and pre-K seats. Waitlist for new locations opened Mon on myschools.nyc. Pairs with the Hochul-Mamdani joint announcement of nearly 100K 3-K and pre-K offers extended for the 2026-27 school year. Funding depends on the still-unresolved $1.2B NYC childcare carve-out in Hochul's $268B state budget framework — same dependency as the broader universal-childcare promise.

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• brokenDouble DCWP budget to $135M
• brokenIncrease Human Rights Commission funding to $21M

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