Mr. Adler also said that day care and nursery school programs would be part of any new downtown Y. Financing would be similar to that of the uptown Y, he said, where 30percentt of earned income is from contributions and the rest is from fees: for dormitory rooms, concert hall presentations, the health club and camps (which some 1,600 children attend).
A nursery-school program, the Little School, began in 1972 and the church also sponsors women's and youth groups.
Last week, West Siders sought alternate sites for the nursery school, a program for about 270 preschool children that has been temporarily displaced from a damaged education building.
The group runs a summer camp and hopes to start a nursery school and a program for the elderly.
The Y.M.-Y.W.H.A. on Nagle Avenue has toddler, nursery school and after-school programs.
You can divert up to $5,000 per year from your pretax salary to pay for child care costs, including nursery school tuition, after-school programs, summer day camp and a nanny's wages.
As a child, in St . Louis he grasped the system behind area codes in nursery school, and learned to program and disassemble a Macintosh at eight.
In addition to the nursery school, the Children's School runs a mother-child program for 1-, 2- and 3-year-olds at the church.
However, expenses for a child in nursery school, preschool, or similar programs for children below the level of kindergarten are deductible for federal income tax purposes of the child care tax credit if those expenses otherwise qualify as child care.
AT the Hayground School in Bridgehampton, an independent school with 77 students in nursery through grade 8, tuition is $7,800 for a full-day program and $5,600 for half-day programs in nursery school for children at least 3 years old.
