Daycare for Woodside, NY families
Our own neighbourhood and the whole of our walk-in radius. Woodside is two- and three-family houses between the wars, a dense commercial strip under the 7, and one of the most linguistically diverse half-square-miles in the United States — which is why five languages are spoken by staff here and why we treat a child's home language as something to keep rather than something to get past. Most of our families walk, which is also why our latest pick-up is 6:15pm rather than 6:00pm: the difference between those two is a 7 train.
Daycare for Sunnyside, NY families
Ten minutes west, and the second-largest group of families here. Sunnyside Gardens and the blocks around it send us a lot of first children, and a fair number of those families are on a waiting list somewhere closer to home as well — which is entirely sensible and which we would rather you told us about, because it changes how we read your answer when a place comes free at short notice.
Daycare for Astoria, NY families
A longer trip, and honestly a difficult one at 8:00am. Families who make it work are usually driving to us on the way to somewhere else rather than travelling here and back, and we will say plainly at the tour if the commute you are describing sounds like one that collapses in February.
Daycare for Jackson Heights, NY families
Immediately east and very well served for nurseries, which means families here are usually comparing three or four of us. Good. Compare the inspection records as well as the rooms — they are public, they are free to read, and they will tell you more about a centre than an hour with its director will.
Daycare for Elmhurst, NY families
Fifteen minutes south-east. A lot of our Elmhurst families are on shift patterns that do not fit a standard nursery week, which is what the two- and three-day fixed schedules and the hourly places are genuinely for. Fixed days rather than rolling ones, because the ratio has to work on both.
Daycare for Maspeth, NY families
South of the expressway and mostly a driving trip. Parking on 61st Street is what you would expect, so families arriving by car generally use the ten-minute standing zone rather than looking for a space, and we would rather tell you that now than have you discover it on the first morning.
Daycare for Long Island City, NY families
The commute runs the wrong way for most LIC families, and we will usually say so. Where it does work it is for a parent whose office is in Woodside or beyond it; where it does not, there are better options closer to home and we would rather point you at them than take a deposit.
Daycare for Rego Park, NY families
A genuine trip. Rego Park families here are almost always siblings of children already enrolled, which tells you something true — the journey is worth making to keep two children in one building, and probably not otherwise.
Daycare for Corona, NY families
East along Roosevelt, and a common enough journey. Many Corona families we speak to are weighing a home-based programme against a centre, and those are genuinely different products with different regulations. We will explain the difference without pretending the answer is always us.
Daycare for Middle Village, NY families
South and a car trip. Worth knowing that our school-age hours are built around the schools nearest us, so a Middle Village child in a Middle Village school is a difficult fit for the after-school programme and an easy one for holiday and summer care.
Daycare for Ridgewood, NY families
The border is closer than the journey suggests, but it is still a bus or a long walk with a toddler. Our Ridgewood families tend to use fixed part-time days rather than full weeks.
Daycare for Forest Hills, NY families
The furthest neighbourhood we see families from, and the one where we most often suggest looking closer to home first. If you have read the honesty pages and still want to make the journey, we will talk about it properly — but we will raise the distance rather than wait for you to.
