{"id":84138,"date":"2025-07-22T20:55:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-22T20:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/84138\/"},"modified":"2025-07-22T20:55:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-22T20:55:10","slug":"mayor-eric-adams-announces-dozens-of-new-free-after-school-locations-set-to-open-for-nyc-kids-this-fall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/84138\/","title":{"rendered":"Mayor Eric Adams announces dozens of new, free after-school locations set to open for NYC kids this fall"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dozens of new locations offering free after-school programs will open to city kids this fall, Mayor Eric Adams announced Tuesday.<\/p>\n

The 40 sites are part of a $331 million investment in universal after-school programming that\u00a0City Hall secured during budget negotiations<\/a>\u00a0this spring.<\/p>\n

\u201cNow children from working class families will have a spot in after school programs where they can learn and, most importantly, where they can thrive,\u201d Adams said from P.S. 152 The Evergreen School in the South Bronx.<\/p>\n

Adams said the expansion is a key step in his broader goal of achieving free after-school programming for all students kindergarten through 8th grade. NYC Mayor’s Office<\/p>\n

The\u00a0new locations, which include 37 public schools and three charter schools, will add 5,000 additional after-school seats for K-5 students starting in September, at a cost of $21 million.<\/p>\n

The rest of the funding will be gradually rolled out to create nearly 20,000 more seats by fall 2027 \u2014 bringing the total kids served to 184,000 students at an annual cost of $755 million, City Hall officials said.<\/p>\n

The investment marks the first major citywide expansion of the program in nearly a decade, according to the Adams administration.<\/p>\n

Keith Howard, commissioner of the city\u2019s Department of Youth and Community Development, said the goal of growing after-school opportunities was to lift pressure on working parents, particularly in low-income neighborhoods.<\/p>\n

Priorities included locations that didn\u2019t already have after-school programs, low income neighborhoods, those with high rates of violent crime, and areas with a high number of students with disabilities or English language learners, Howard said.<\/p>\n

Adams held a press event at P.S. 152 in the South Bronx Tuesday. @NYCMayor\/X<\/p>\n

DYCD Commissioner Keith Howard said he attended after-school growing up in the Bronx and now sends his children. NYC Mayor’s Office<\/p>\n

\u201cWe selected the schools in collaboration with New York City public schools based on the highest need in the city,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The full list<\/a> of new locations includes 14 public schools in the Bronx; 12 public schools in Queens; nine public schools and one charter school in Brooklyn; two public schools in Staten Island; and two charter schools in Manhattan.<\/p>\n

With this expansion the total number of free after-school programs operating in New York City next year will be about 1,050, according to the DYCD.<\/p>\n

New York Junior Tennis and Learning, an after-school program, was one of the first providers selected for the expansion and will operate out of P.S. 152, according to Udai Tambar, the president and CEO.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe strongly believe that talent is universal but opportunity is not, and after-school programs like this give young people the opportunity to reach their full potential,\u201d\u00a0Tambar said. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dozens of new locations offering free after-school programs will open to city kids this fall, Mayor Eric Adams…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":84139,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,25090,5289,5248,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,40852,11645,67,586,132,5230,68,1154,2969,11108],"class_list":{"0":"post-84138","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-childcare","10":"tag-eric-adams","11":"tag-metro","12":"tag-new-york","13":"tag-new-york-city","14":"tag-newyork","15":"tag-newyorkcity","16":"tag-ny","17":"tag-nyc","18":"tag-public-schools","19":"tag-school","20":"tag-united-states","21":"tag-united-states-of-america","22":"tag-unitedstates","23":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","24":"tag-us","25":"tag-us-news","26":"tag-usa","27":"tag-youth"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114898883588257318","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84138\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}