Zohran Mamdani: “While this building was completed last summer, its…”

“Upper east siders have long called for the early childhood resources the neighborhood needs and yet year after year those calls were ignored. While this building was completed last summer, its classrooms have continued to sit empty for months. And so while parents were forced to look elsewhere for childcare, they would walk past a solution to the the very challenges that they faced, wondering why its doors remained closed.” (01:35–01:42)

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