Daycare in Woodside, NY

Yes, and this is one of the few places offering it properly. We take hourly and drop-in children at $28 an hour with a two-hour minimum, booked against a place that is genuinely free on the day. The limit is not commercial: our Health Code permit caps the number of children who may be on the premises at any moment, and that cap counts children present rather than children enrolled — so an hourly child occupies a permitted place exactly as a full-time child does. That is why we can rarely take a same-morning call, and why anybody advertising unlimited drop-in availability in New York City is describing something the permit does not allow. A first hourly session also needs the full health form and immunisation record, which takes a few days rather than a few minutes.

Ours is $475 a week for infants, $425 for toddlers, $395 for twos, $365 for preschool and $345 for pre-kindergarten, full-time, with all meals included and no separate curriculum charge. Published surveys put centre-based infant care across Queens at roughly $1,700 to $2,100 a month and toddler care at $1,400 to $1,800, so we sit inside the normal range rather than below it. The reason infant care costs most is arithmetic rather than luxury: the law allows one adult to four babies, so you are buying a quarter of somebody's working day.

Possibly not, and you should check before you pay us anything. New York City offers free, full-day 3-K and Pre-K for All to every resident child of the right age, regardless of income or immigration status. For the 2026-2027 year children born in 2023 could apply to 3-K and children born in 2022 to pre-K, with applications open from 14 January to 27 February 2026. Families still pay us for those ages when they need hours a free place does not cover, or when they could not get one, and both are legitimate reasons — but starting the conversation anywhere else would be taking your money for something the City would have given you.

In New York City it is the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, under Article 47 of the City Health Code — not OCFS, which regulates centres in the rest of the state. Every permitted centre is inspected at least annually and frequently twice a year, and the full inspection and violation history is public through Child Care Connect and the City open data portal. You can look up any nursery in this neighbourhood, including this one, and see the date of every visit and whether anything found was open or corrected. We would rather you did that than take our word for anything on this website.

In New York City the Article 47 rule is one adult to four infants aged birth to eleven months in a group of no more than eight; one to five for toddlers of twelve to twenty-four months in a group of no more than ten; and one to six for children of two to under three in a group of no more than twelve. Staff counted in the ratio have to keep direct line of sight and constant competent supervision at all times. Those city numbers are stricter than the state ones that apply outside the five boroughs, which is why a ratio table you found online may not be the one that governs us.

Yes, and so does every other legally operating nursery in this state. New York requires every child in day care to be immune to diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis, measles, mumps, rubella, polio, hepatitis B, varicella, Hib and pneumococcal disease. There are no non-medical exemptions in New York — the religious exemption was repealed in 2019 — and a child who is behind must have at least the first dose of everything required within fourteen days of starting. A genuine medical exemption from a physician is the only exception, and it is rare.