{"id":862699,"date":"2026-06-12T17:48:26","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T17:48:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/862699\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T17:48:26","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T17:48:26","slug":"city-selects-2-k-jingle-contest-winner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/862699\/","title":{"rendered":"City selects 2-K jingle contest winner"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The city has named the winner of its 2-K jingle contest.<\/p>\n<p>The contest, <a href=\"https:\/\/ny1.com\/nyc\/all-boroughs\/news\/2026\/04\/03\/cardi-b-mamdani-promote-nyc-2-k-with-jingle-contest\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">announced in April<\/a>, was created to find a jingle that would be used to promote the city&#8217;s free childcare program for 2-year-olds.<\/p>\n<p><b>What You Need To Know<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The city has named the winner of its 2-K jingle contest<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>Allegra&#8217;s winning jingle will be used\u00a0to promote the city&#8217;s free childcare program for 2-year-olds<\/li>\n<p><\/p>\n<li>Sign-up for the program goes through June 26<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>More than 300 entries were submitted, and nearly 13,000 New Yorkers voted on five finalists chosen by rapper Cardi B and multi-hyphenate songwriter Lin-Manuel Miranda, Mayor Zohran Mamdani said in a news release.<\/p>\n<p>The winner&#8217;s name is Allegra, and Allegra&#8217;s jingle will be played citywide, the release said.<\/p>\n<p>&amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;amp;nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The city&#8217;s 2-K program is set to launch this fall, starting with 2,000 seats. Applications <a href=\"https:\/\/ny1.com\/nyc\/all-boroughs\/news\/2026\/06\/02\/applications-open-for-city-s-first-free-2-k-seats\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">opened earlier this month<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Families can apply for seats through June 26.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The city has named the winner of its 2-K jingle contest. The contest, announced in April, was created&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":862700,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,74132,16549,13565,7448,407,405,403,50,5226,5225,5228,5227,80,292673,52,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-862699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-america","tag-app-arts-entertainment","tag-app-education","tag-app-local-state-politics","tag-app-top-stories","tag-education","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-news","tag-newyork","tag-newyorkcity","tag-ny","tag-nyc","tag-politics","tag-sarah-ng","tag-top-stories","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116738399368736911","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862699","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=862699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/862699\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/862700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=862699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=862699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=862699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}