This news appeared on the Park Slope Parents list over the weekend: the Berkeley Carroll Child Care Center will close at the end of this academic year in Aug. 2009. Here’s more:

Methodist Hospital owns the building and needs the space back to
accommodate their own growth. Unfortunately, Berkeley Carroll was unable to find another suitable space. We are all devastated and are trying to mobilize to get another year extension on the lease so that the families will have more time to transition to other options.

Shortage of child care options, especially for children under 2 because of the strict physical requirements of the space, was already a problem in this neighborhood, so this is a real loss, not just to the families who currently attend, but to the whole neighborhood as well. The center is a truly wonderful place with loving teachers.

Folks seem pretty distraught over it and are hoping to foment a movement to salvage the center. Can anyone out there help?