{"id":895,"date":"2026-05-19T12:25:34","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T16:25:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/?p=895"},"modified":"2026-05-19T12:25:34","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T16:25:34","slug":"city-to-open-empty-brooklyn-preschool-after-years-of-delays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/2026\/05\/19\/city-to-open-empty-brooklyn-preschool-after-years-of-delays\/","title":{"rendered":"City to open empty Brooklyn preschool after years of delays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The city will&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/ny1.com\/nyc\/all-boroughs\/education\/2026\/05\/11\/despite-millions-spent--finished-pre-school-site-sits-empty-in-brooklyn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">finally open a vacant preschool<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 on which it has spent millions in renovations and rent \u2014 to students this fall, officials said Monday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Parents had been urging the city to open the school at 129 Van Brunt St. for months \u2014 through petitions, social media videos and interviews with news outlets, including NY1. The city launched the project under former Mayor Bill de Blasio and spent $12 million renovating the space, plus more than $1 million in rent annually since 2022.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>In a statement, Council Member Shahana Hanif thanked families, local schools and community members for advocating for the site.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis fully built, publicly funded facility should never have sat empty while families searched for childcare seats close to home, but that is exactly what the previous administration allowed to happen,\u201d she said in a statement. \u201cParents organized, spoke out and pushed for the resources their community needed. We are finally delivering long-overdue early childhood education seats for neighborhood families and making an important investment in the future of this community.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/ny1.com\/nyc\/all-boroughs\/education\/2026\/05\/18\/city-to-open-vacant-brooklyn-pre-school\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The city will&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/ny1.com\/nyc\/all-boroughs\/education\/2026\/05\/11\/despite-millions-spent--finished-pre-school-site-sits-empty-in-brooklyn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">finally open a vacant preschool<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 on which it has spent millions in renovations and rent \u2014 to students this fall, officials said Monday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Parents had been urging the city to open the school at 129 Van Brunt St. for months \u2014 through petitions, social media videos and interviews with news outlets, including NY1.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><strong><small><a href=\"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/2026\/05\/19\/city-to-open-empty-brooklyn-preschool-after-years-of-delays\/\">READ MORE<\/a><\/small><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":288,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/288"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/895\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/council.nyc.gov\/shahana-hanif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}