The issue is that these facilities date back to Bill De Blasio’s days, when he tried to expand universal preschool. Nothing is free; someone always pays, and it is the working class that usually foots the bill because there is not enough money from rich people to pay for everything.
The question now is what will Mamdani do? He is already failing in many of the promises that got him elected. This is the new plot from the left, campaign on moderate policies and once elected, go left, far left. Here we go again with lies from the progressives getting the sheep to follow for the potential of free stuff. All IMO.
https://nypost.com/2026/04/20/us-news/empty-nyc-preschools-cost-taxpayers-nearly-100m-in-rent-alone/
“New York City has shelled out nearly $100 million in taxpayer dollars to rent more than two dozen buildings that were meant to house preschools — but have yet to open half a decade later, The Post has learned.
The city is still footing the rent and utility bills for the 28 facilities— a $99.3 million-and-counting boondoggle blamed on the “terrible execution” of former Mayor Bill de Blasio’s ambitious universal preschool expansion.
“I don’t think it’s corruption. It’s incompetence,” a former city Department of Education official told The Post.”