Registration opens for 2K for 2-K fun run celebrating upcoming first 2,000 free child care seats for two-year-olds | amNewYork

A registration portal opened for a free, family-friendly two-kilometer fun run honoring the first 2,000 families receiving free, full-day, year-round childcare for their two-year-olds. The event, “2K for 2-K,” will be held June 7 at 8 a.m. at Fort Tryon Park in Manhattan, with a festival and youth races, in partnership with New York Road Runners. The run is intended to boost applications for childcare seats, encouraging eligible families to apply by June 26. The first childcare seats will be allocated to families in specific communities, while the fun run will be open to the public on a first-come, first-served basis. The event continues an awareness campaign for free 2-K programs and includes prior outreach such as school visits and a jingle contest with Cardi B.

"Mayor Zohran Mamdani opened the registration portal on Thursday for a new free, family-friendly two-kilometer fun run in honor of the first 2,000 families to receive free, full-day, year-round childcare for their two-year-olds."

"The mayor's office will host the 2K for 2-K run along with a festival and youth races on June 7 at 8 a.m. in Fort Tryon Park in Manhattan, partnering with New York Road Runners (NYRR), the nonprofit behind the TCS New York City Marathon."

"Mamdani said the race will also serve as a boost for applications for free child care, encouraging eligible families to apply for the inaugural seats by the June 26 deadline. This work is a marathon, not a sprint, Mamdani said. We are building a city where every family, no matter where they live or how much money they earn, has access to the care they need to build a life in New York City."

"While the first 2K seats will go to families in four communities, Upper Manhattan, parts of the western Bronx, neighborhoods in central Brooklyn, and southeast Queens, the 2K for 2-K will be open to the public on a first-come, first-served basis. The fun run is the next in a series of events as part of an awareness campaign promoting the launch of free 2-K programs."

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