1657 NOSTRAND AVENUE, Brooklyn, NY 11226 · Child Care - Pre School
NYC health inspectors visited Garden OF Knowledge DAY Care & Learning Center (Brooklyn) 8 times in the 2020–2023 records, flagging the center 2 times. Its 25% flagged rate is about the same as the NYC average for child care - pre school (21.9% NYC average). Last inspection on record: April 6, 2023.
About average Standing vs NYC average.
Staff background screening & clearances — cited 4 time(s), most recently January 20, 2023.
Fingerprint screening not arranged for current and prospective personnel; Results not satisfactory or CAP was not approved.
Compliance with Health Department orders — cited 1 time(s), most recently February 11, 2022.
The center/camp fails to comply with an Order of the Board or Commissioner of Health and Mental Hygiene.
Conduct detrimental to health & safety — cited 1 time(s), most recently February 11, 2022.
Individual associated with the center/camp involved in an act detrimental to health and safety.
Teacher qualifications & credentials — cited 2 time(s), most recently February 11, 2022.
The center staff identified/acting as group teachers do not meet the required qualifications of the position.
Supervision, child-to-staff ratios & group size — cited 1 time(s), most recently February 11, 2022.
Except in night care a group teacher shall be in charge of each group of children 2-6 years of age.
NYC inspectors cited 9 violation(s) across 2 flagged inspections (out of 8 total inspections) between 2020 and 2023. The most recent inspection on record is April 6, 2023. City data ends April 2023, so newer inspections are not published.
Garden OF Knowledge DAY Care & Learning Center was flagged in 25% of its inspections, versus a 21.9% average for Child Care - Pre School centers citywide — about the same as the NYC average.
Inspectors classified at least one citation as a public-health hazard (the city's most serious tier): Fingerprint screening not arranged for current and prospective personnel; Results not satisfactory or CAP was not approved. Last cited January 20, 2023; status on record: 4 CORRECTED. An OPEN status means no correction was recorded by April 2023 — not proof it is still uncorrected today.
Has every adult with unsupervised access to children — including volunteers — cleared fingerprinting and the State Central Register? Can you confirm no one starts before clearance? (Suggested by the center's most recent violation family: staff background screening & clearances.)
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