Infant daycare staten island: Staten Island Infant Daycare Program

Early Childhood Education – Joan & Alan Bernikow JCC of Staten Island

​Click the link below to download our 3-K and Pre-K for All orientation:

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You can submit any comments or questions about our reopening here.

PRE-K & 3-K FOR ALL REGISTRATION IS NOW OPEN! FOR MORE INFORMATION,
AND TO SET UP YOUR ACCOUNT, CLICK HERE! 

Check out the video below to see a tour of our sites! 

For more information or to schedule a tour, contact:
Joan & Alan Bernikow JCC, 1466 Manor Road: 718.475.5230 
Nancy and Ronald Avis/South Shore JCC, 1297 Arthur Kill Road: 718.475.5270
Aberlin/North Shore JCC, 485 Victory Boulevard: 718.475.5290
​JCC/Berman Early Childhood Education Center, 2221 Richmond Avenue: 718.475.5100

Infant & Toddler Daycare

​12 month, full day program, 7am-6pm
Five day a week program available at all sites
Ages 3 months-2.9 years available at Bernikow and Berman locations

• Two or three  day a week schedule available at Berman

Our daycare is licensed by the Department of Health and Bureau of Daycare. Our teachers are New York State certified. The JCC’s Daycare program provides your child with a full day of activities, security, and care in an environment that stimulates their growth in all areas of development.

3-K and Pre-K For All

Pilot Preschool Summer Program

​Full day options available at the Bernikow JCC and Avis/South Shore buildings.

PJ Library

PJ Library is a free community program bringing age-appropriate Jewish themed books and CDs each month to registered children ages 6 months-8 years. Participation is open to all. To register for this FREE program, visit www.newyork.pjlibrary.org 

Alma Harter Library

​The Alma Harter Children’s library is housed at the Staten Island Bank & Trust Foundation Early Childhood wing at the Bernikow JCC. This library gives children access to books that keep them entertained while fostering a lifelong love of literature. The library is named for Alma Harter, the JCC’s first Early Childhood Director. To make a donation or to add books to our library, please call Jayne Smith at 718.475.5265.

Get Involved

​Join our Early Childhood Facebook group to see pictures and get information on our programs. This is a closed group open to Early Childhood families only. Join here: https://www.facebook.com/groups/327542770771901/
Please consider joining our Early Childhood Advisory Committee to help us enhance our programs with new ideas, family events, and fundraising opportunities.
Jaclyn Kronfeld, Denise Schnieder – Co-Chairs
Contact Jayne Smith for more information at 718.475.5265

Daycare, Preschool & Child Care Centers in Staten Island, NY

KinderCare has partnered with Staten Island families for more than 50 years to provide award-winning early education programs and high-quality childcare in Staten Island, NY.

Whether you are looking for a preschool in Staten Island, a trusted part-time or full-time daycare provider, or educational before- or after-school programs, KinderCare offers fun and learning at an affordable price.

1. Clark KinderCare

   Phone:
   (732) 340-1900

   89 Terminal Ave
   Clark
   NJ
   07066

   Distance from address: 10. 34 miles

   Ages: 6 weeks to 12 years
   Open: 6:30 AM to 6:30 PM, M-F

   Tuition & Openings

2. KinderCare at Middletown

   Phone:
   (732) 787-7000

   245 Leonardville Rd
   Belford
   NJ
   07718

   Distance from address: 10.55 miles

   Ages: 6 weeks to 12 years
   Open: 6:30 AM to 6:30 PM, M-F

   Tuition & Openings

3. KinderCare at Kenilworth

   Phone:
   (908) 620-1391

   25 Market St
   Kenilworth
   NJ
   07033

   Distance from address: 10. 93 miles

   Ages: 6 weeks to 12 years
   Open: 6:30 AM to 6:30 PM, M-F

   Tuition & Openings

4. Park Slope KinderCare

   Phone:
   (718) 398-1813

   802 Union Street
   Brooklyn
   NY
   11215

   Distance from address: 11.58 miles

   Ages: 6 weeks to 3 years
   Open: 6:30 AM to 6:30 PM, M-F

   Tuition & Openings

5. Cobble Hill KinderCare

   Phone:
   (718) 260-8186

   112 Atlantic Ave
   Brooklyn
   NY
   11201

   Distance from address: 11. 64 miles

   Ages: 6 weeks to 3 years
   Open: 6:30 AM to 6:30 PM, M-F

   Tuition & Openings

6. New York Plaza KinderCare

   Phone:
   (212) 513-7367

   4 NY Plaza Suite 104
   New York
   NY
   10004

   Distance from address: 11.82 miles

   Ages: 6 weeks to 5 years
   Open: 7:00 AM to 6:30 PM, M-F

   Tuition & Openings

7. KinderCare FiDi NYC

   Phone:
   (212) 349-2423

   101 John St
   New York
   NY
   10038

   Distance from address: 12. 29 miles

   Ages: 12 Weeks to 4 years
   Open: 7:30 AM to 6:30 PM, M-F

   Tuition & Openings

8. Tribeca KinderCare

   Phone:
   (212) 962-1316

   311 Greenwich St
   New York
   NY
   10013

   Distance from address: 12.64 miles

   Ages: 6 weeks to 5 years
   Open: 6:00 AM to 7:00 PM, M-F

   Tuition & Openings

9. KinderCare Learning Center at Newark

   Phone:
   (973) 623-0182

   132/142 Cabinet Street
   Newark
   NJ
   07107

   Distance from address: 12. 85 miles

   Ages: 6 weeks to 12 years
   Open: 6:30 AM to 6:30 PM, M-F

   Tuition & Openings

10. Aberdeen KinderCare

    Phone:
    (732) 817-0200

    1330 NJ-34
    Aberdeen Township
    NJ
    07747

    Distance from address: 12.89 miles

    Ages: 6 weeks to 12 years
    Open: 6:30 AM to 6:30 PM, M-F

    Tuition & Openings

11. North Williamsburg KinderCare

    Phone:
    (718) 387-0192

    17 N 6th St
    Brooklyn
    NY
    11249

    Distance from address: 14. 33 miles

    Ages: 6 weeks to 5 years
    Open: 7:30 AM to 6:30 PM, M-F

    Tuition & Openings

Why is Staten Island the only area not connected to the rest of New York by subways?

Staten Island is the only area in New York that is not connected to the subway. Isolated by water on all sides, its inhabitants must depend on a 25-minute ferry ride, or on their own cars. But did you know that Staten Island had a subway plan that was never built?

Interborough Rapid Transit (IRT), now known as the Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA), was the private operator of the first metro lines in 1904 year. It later teamed up with other transit systems in the New York City boroughs to create a service that connects Queens, the Bronx, Manhattan, and Brooklyn—all New York boroughs except Staten Island.

At the time, Staten Island Borough President George Cromwell insisted that the area deserved transportation links to the rest of the city. In 1912, Cromwell’s plan was approved, which provided for a tunnel between Tompkinsville and 67th Street in Brooklyn, but it was shelved when Cromwell was defeated in the election in 1912.13 year.

By 1918, Brooklyn Rapid Transit (BRT) again came up with a proposal to build a subway tunnel that would connect the city to the IRT system. The plans were put into motion in the 1920s when officials decided to connect the pre-existing Staten Island Railroad (then known as the Staten Island Rapid Transit and owned by the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad) at St. George’s with the rest of the subway system. Transfers were to be made in Brooklyn, at stations 59th Street to Sunset Park, now served by the N and R trains. The trip was forecast to take only 8 to 10 minutes.

By this time slogans such as “Ten Minutes to Broadway”, “Subway for Richmond” were posted in Staten Island. The idea was that the subway would not only help grow the area’s population, which was barely 200,000 at the time, but would also change life in the area around the docking stations. However, before construction began, BRT went bankrupt.

In 1921, then Mayor John F. Hylan and city representatives in Albany introduced a bill requiring New York City to build a freight and passenger tunnel between Staten Island and Brooklyn, Home Reporter and Sunset News reported at 1964 year.

This tunnel was not going to be an extension of the metro system, it was supposed to function as a separate railway. However, from it it was possible to get into the subway at the Fourth Avenue station, while the freight connection was supposed to be with the Long Island Railroad near Sixth Avenue in Brooklyn.

The tunnel was dug on April 14, 1923 on Shore Road at Bay Ridge. Three months later, construction began on the Staten Island side of Tompkinsville. The Brooklyn-Richmond Cargo and Passenger Tunnel was expected to be the longest underwater tunnel by the time it was completed at 1929 year.

However, the construction lasted only a year. Shafts from ground level to the tunnel had already been built on the east and west sides, extending 150 feet into the harbour. Bids for further construction were posted in 1925, but contractors were slow to take on the order. And somehow the very idea of ​​an underground railway came to naught and was completely forgotten by the 1930s. According to several archive news clippings, the city spent $6 million, but the only thing left is the Brooklyn side of the tunnel, which still exists under Owl Head Park in Bay Ridge.

Why was construction stopped? John Delaney, chairman of the Board of Transportation, said the tunnel connection was not a priority. “I think that the city first of all needs new metro stations,” he declared in 1924. “I am convinced that they are more important than the Staten Island tunnel. We need new lines in Manhattan, Brooklyn and Queens. These are our top priorities.”

However, over the years there have been many theories as to what actually happened to the tunnel project. One theory is that the then mayor Hylan, who was previously fired from the BRT, tried to return to the transit system by bankrupting them. Many believe that had the company not gone bankrupt, the project could have continued and eventually ended.

Another theory revolves around former Governor Alfred Smith, who at the time held shares in the Pennsylvania Railroad, which was a major competitor to Baltimore and Ohio. There is a version that Smith feared that the construction of a freight tunnel would destroy his monopoly on freight transportation across the Hudson, reports the New York Times.

The idea of ​​putting a subway on Staten Island is still being discussed. Historians claim that the most expedient solution would be to put the metro on the Verrazano bridge, but this moment has already been missed.

Today, more than 70,000 passengers use the Staten Island Ferry daily. In 2010, the City Council passed legislation that called for the City Transportation Department and the MTA to “establish a plan to build a tunnel between Brooklyn and Staten Island. ” But further – again silence. In 2016, the head of the MTA, Tom Prendergast, said that the railway line connecting Staten Island with Brooklyn would be difficult and expensive, so the project was not worth taking on. Perhaps in the future, everything will change, but for now, residents are forced to continue to rely on the ferry.

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