"More than a half-dozen gentrified neighborhoods in Brooklyn would lose subsidized day care centers for low-income families under proposed city budget cuts, Bloomberg administration officials said Wednesday."
A list of the 15 day care centers that are scheduled to close in July, 10 of them in Brooklyn, was released by theAdministration for Children’s Services, and the agency tried to head off protests by unions, elected officials and families that have vowed to fight the closings.
City officials countered that most of the centers to be closed are in neighborhoods that no longer need as many slots for children in low-income families.
Those neighborhoods include Cobble Hill, Boerum Hill, Prospect Heights and Clinton Hill, according to the list of day care centers provided by Children’s Services; 324 other centers will stay open.
Other centers that would be closed are in Coney Island, Morningside Heights in Manhattan and Jamaica and the Rockaways in Queens. Melanie Hartzog, a deputy commissioner at Children’s Services, said that gentrified communities like Clinton Hill had a heavy concentration of eligible children 20 years ago, “but that’s not the case today, so there is a mismatch.”
A list of the 15 day care centers that are scheduled to close in July, 10 of them in Brooklyn, was released by theAdministration for Children’s Services, and the agency tried to head off protests by unions, elected officials and families that have vowed to fight the closings.
City officials countered that most of the centers to be closed are in neighborhoods that no longer need as many slots for children in low-income families.
Those neighborhoods include Cobble Hill, Boerum Hill, Prospect Heights and Clinton Hill, according to the list of day care centers provided by Children’s Services; 324 other centers will stay open.
Other centers that would be closed are in Coney Island, Morningside Heights in Manhattan and Jamaica and the Rockaways in Queens. Melanie Hartzog, a deputy commissioner at Children’s Services, said that gentrified communities like Clinton Hill had a heavy concentration of eligible children 20 years ago, “but that’s not the case today, so there is a mismatch.”
