NYC daycare directory
Licensed daycares in New York City
Every group child care center with an active NYC Health Department permit, borough by borough and neighborhood by neighborhood — with ages served, licensed capacity, and permit numbers straight from the city's records.
- Licensed centers
- 1,914
- Licensed spots
- 140,177
- Active permits
- 2,299
- Boroughs
- 5
Browse by borough
- Manhattan394 centers
- Upper West Side · 41
- Lenox Hill · 25
- Yorkville · 24
- SoHo · 23
- Upper East Side · 21
- Chelsea · 20
- Lincoln Square · 19
- Morningside Heights · 18
- Brooklyn796 centers
- Borough Park · 87
- Park Slope · 36
- Bed-Stuy · 34
- Crown Heights North · 34
- Sunset Park East · 32
- Downtown Brooklyn · 30
- Bensonhurst West · 28
- Flatbush · 27
- Queens402 centers
- Hunters Point · 31
- Forest Hills · 18
- Flushing · 17
- Jackson Heights · 15
- Jamaica · 14
- Astoria · 13
- Elmhurst · 13
- Kew Gardens Hills · 13
- Bronx236 centers
- Williamsbridge · 18
- Claremont · 14
- Mott Haven · 14
- North Riverdale · 13
- Melrose South · 12
- Spuyten Duyvil · 12
- University Heights · 10
- Morrisania · 9
- Staten Island86 centers
- New Springville · 10
- Old Town · 7
- Charleston · 6
- Great Kills · 6
- West New Brighton · 6
- Annadale · 5
- Grymes Hill · 5
- Mariner's Harbor · 5
What's in this directory
- Group child care centers with an active permit under the NYC Health Code (Article 47), refreshed daily from the city's open data.
- A center with separate infant/toddler and preschool permits appears once, with both programs.
- Home daycares and school-age programs are licensed by NY State OCFS and aren't listed one by one — look any of them up, anywhere in New York, with our license lookup.
- Inspection results live on the city's Child Care Connect site; each page links there.
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Source: NYC Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, Active NYC Health Code Regulated Child Care Programs (NYC Open Data), updated Sep 26, 2026. Inspection results and violation history are on the city's Child Care Connect.