NYC daycare directory
Licensed daycares in Manhattan
394 group child care centers in Manhattan hold an active NYC Health Department permit, with room for 28,270 children. Browse them by neighborhood.
- Licensed centers
- 394
- Licensed spots
- 28,270
- Neighborhoods
- 28
- Home daycares (NYS OCFS)
- 685
Manhattan neighborhoods
- Battery Park City-Lower Manhattan14
- Central Harlem North-Polo Grounds11
- Central Harlem South10
- Chinatown12
- East Harlem North10
- East Harlem South17
- East Village8
- Gramercy6
- Hamilton Heights5
- Hell's Kitchen (Clinton)13
- Hudson Yards-Chelsea-Flatiron-Union Square20
- Lenox Hill-Roosevelt Island25
- Lincoln Square19
- Lower East Side17
- Manhattanville2
- Marble Hill-Inwood5
- Midtown-Midtown South9
- Morningside Heights18
- Murray Hill-Kips Bay12
- SoHo-TriBeCa-Civic Center-Little Italy23
- Stuyvesant Town-Cooper Village1
- Turtle Bay-East Midtown12
- Upper East Side-Carnegie Hill21
- Upper West Side41
- Washington Heights North10
- Washington Heights South11
- West Village15
- Yorkville24
Other licensed daycares in Manhattan
- Concrete Life Experiences
2600 Adam Clayton Powell Jr Boulevard
- Infants & toddlers · ages 0–2
- Preschool · ages 2–5
Licensed for up to 54 children
- Little Legacy Village
2750 Frederick Douglass Boulevard
- Preschool · ages 2–5
Licensed for up to 15 children
Home daycares in Manhattan
Beyond these centers, NY State OCFS licenses or registers 685 family and group family daycares and 262 school-age programs in Manhattan. Home daycares are run from the provider's home, so we don't list them individually here — check any of them by name with our license lookup.
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Other boroughs
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.