City Savers

Written by New York Family on August 2, 2012. Posted in News & Features West Side Spirit, News Our Town, Our Town, Special Sections, West Side Spirit

Tutoring, babysitting, even vacationing—There are more ways to contain the cost of an nyc childhood than one might think By Hillary Chura You don’t need to move to the suburbs to save money. (In fact, that usually doesn’t work, but more on that later.) In my experience, there are ways to reduce the cost
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Bloomingdale Child Care Program at Risk

Written by West Side Spirit on June 28, 2012. Posted in Family, News & Features West Side Spirit, West Side Spirit

By Amanda Woods Mayor Michael Bloomberg and the City Council reached a budget agreement on Monday that increases city funding for child care and after-school programs, but it may not be enough to help the Bloomingdale Family Program’s Head Start program on the Upper West Side, which is projected to shut down in the fall.
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‘Self’ Magazine Writer Focuses on Prominent Mothers

Written by NYPress on May 17, 2012. Posted in Family, News & Features West Side Spirit, West Side Spirit

By Jennifer Hedwig When she was pregnant with her daughter over a year ago, Brooklyn-based writer Erin Bried found herself up to her eyeballs in sometimes confusing, often contradictory advice on parenthood. But she put her zest for research to work, and the result is the practical, yet tender book How to Rock Your Baby:
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Notes from the Neighborhood

Written by Megan Finnegan Bungeroth on April 12, 2012. Posted in News Our Town, Notes From the Neighborhood west side spirit

STANLEY ISAACS RALLIES Parents, children and local officials gathered to protest proposed cuts to the Stanley M. Isaacs Neighborhood Center’s Beacon Program on Tuesday. The mayor’s preliminary budget would defund the program entirely; the Department of Youth and Community Development has notified the Center that it would have to close the program July 1 if
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Nannies Close to Winning Labor Rights

Written by admin on June 9, 2010. Posted in News & Features West Side Spirit, Notes From the Neighborhood west side spirit

By Dan Rivoli Nannies and other domestic employees in New York have been working in the shadows of the city’s economy. They cook, clean and watch children so parents can pursue careers—all without a guarantee of needed time off or other job benefits that many employees take for granted
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