New York City released the first 40 sites of a citywide after-school expansion Tuesday— with the ultimate goal of making it universal.
The announcement builds on news in April that Mayor Adams would fund 5,000 more after-school slots — with a price tag of $21 million — in this fiscal year’s budget negotiated with the City Council.
The programs are open to students in kindergarten through fifth grade and expected to be operational by the first day of school in September.
“[For] too long,” Adams said at P.S. 152 The Evergreen School in the Bronx, “these families have not had access to affordable child care and after-school programming, forcing many of them to leave the city they love. So we listened.”
“Those 5,000 children in neighborhoods in most need will have a safe place and nurturing place to go when the school day ends.”
The expansion comes amid a greater focus on the city’s affordability crisis, fueled in part by families fleeing the five boroughs due to the cost of child care and mayoral candidates — most notably Democratic nominee Zohran Mamdani — highlighting the issue through their campaigns.
Keith Howard, the commissioner of the Department of Youth and Community Development, said schools were prioritized for the new funding if they previously did not have an after-school program; serve low-income families and students with disabilities or learning English; or are located in high-crime neighborhoods.
The locations include 14 schools in the Bronx, 12 in Queens and 10 in Brooklyn. Manhattan and Staten Island are opening two new sites each.
Fulfilling the promise of an after-school program for any family who needs one is likely still many years away. If re-elected, Adams has committed to funding 20,000 more program slots over the next three school years, bringing the number of children in after-school to 184,000 — several hundreds of thousands of students short of the public school system’s total enrollment.
Here are the new locations:
P.S. 036 Unionport
1070 Castle Hill Avenue, Bronx, New York 10472
P.S. 152 Evergreen
1007 Evergreen Avenue, Bronx, New York 10472
P.S. 035 Franz Siegel
261 East 163 Street, Bronx, New York 10451
P.S. 236 Langston Hughes
1871 Walton Avenue, Bronx, New York 10453
P.S. 070 Max Schoenfeld
1691 Weeks Avenue, Bronx, New York 10457
P.S. 310 Marble Hill
260 West Kingsbridge Road, Bronx, New York 10463
P.S./M.S. 194
2365 Waterbury Avenue, Bronx, New York 10462
P.S. 105 Sen Abraham Bernstein
725 Brady Avenue, Bronx, New York 10462
P.S. 087 Bronx
4200 Grace Avenue, Bronx, New York 10466
Baychester Academy
3500 Edson Avenue, Bronx, New York 10466
P.S. 089 Bronx
980 Mace Avenue, Bronx, New York 10469
The Matilda Avenue School
4520 Matilda Avenue, Bronx, New York 10470
P.S. 536
1827 Archer Street, Bronx, New York 10460
P.S. 196
1250 Ward Avenue, Bronx, New York 10472
P.S. 230 Doris L. Cohen
1 Albemarle Road, Brooklyn, New York 11218
P.S. 159 Isaac Pitkin
2781 Pitkin Avenue, Brooklyn, New York 11208
P.S. 160 William T. Sampson
5105 Fort Hamilton Parkway, Brooklyn, New York 11219
P.S. 176 Ovington
1225 69 Street, Brooklyn, New York 11219
P.S. 204 Vince Lombardi
8101 15 Avenue, Brooklyn, New York 11228
P.S. 101 The Verrazano
8696 24 Avenue, Brooklyn, New York 11214
P.S. 128 Bensonhurst
2075 84 Street, Brooklyn, New York 11214
P.S. 253
601 Oceanview Avenue, Brooklyn, New York 11235
P.S. 255 Barbara Reing School
1866 East 17 Street, Brooklyn, New York 11229
Imagine Me Leadership Charter School
39 Truxton Street, Brooklyn, New York 11233
Global Community Charter School
2350 5th Avenue, Manhattan, New York 10037
The Equity Project Charter School
549 Audobon Avenue, Manhattan, New York 10040
P.S. 143 Louis Armstrong
34-74 113 Street, Queens, New York 11368
P.S. 110
43-18 97th Place, Queens, New York 11368
Helen M. Marshall School
110-08 Northern Boulevard, Queens, New York 11368
P.S. 28 The Thomas Emanuel Early Childhood Center
109-10 47 Avenue, Queens, New York 11368
P.S. 091 Richard Arkwright
68-10 Central Avenue, Queens, New York 11385
P.S. 013 Clement C. Moore
55-01 94 Street, Queens, New York 11373
P.S. 129 Patricia Larkin
128-02 7 Avenue, Queens, New York 11356
P.S. 108 Captain Vincent G. Fowler
108-10 109 Avenue, Queens, New York 11420
P.S. 045 Clarence Witherspoon
126-28 150 Street, Queens, New York 11436
P.S. 063 Old South
90-15 Sutter Avenue, Queens, New York 11417
P.S. 060 Woodhaven
91-02 88 Avenue, Queens, New York 11421
P.S. 095 Eastwood
179-01 90 Avenue, Queens, New York 11432
P.S. 74 Future Leaders Elementary School
211 Daniel Low Terrace, Staten Island, New York 10301
P.S. 054 Charles W. Leng
1060 Willowbrook Road, Staten Island, New York 10314
