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Guess what! I sued them for a refund for not attended days in December and a breach of contract when a number of parents left their day care in mid-December for a huge number of reasons. We filed a group claim with the reports from the Department of Health, medical records, their falsified financial records and contracts, a number of written statements from the parents who left their daycare, and a few witnesses ready to testify. After showing up in a small court on February 3, Borya (the owner) with a lawyer (ha-ha-ha, so they had to get one finally) had nothing better to come up with than a counterclaim for signing a contract with them for 10 months and now breaking this contract. I guess their lawyer is smart enough to make their bill look really nice as the more mess she creates with this counterclaim, the more time and money she’ll get from them. They already lost two hours of lawyer’s fees yesterday. And it’s just the beginning! So many more hours and witnesses to come!!! They are so stupid even to bring up their fake contract in court. Well, let’s screw them – all the people who signed those contract, look RIGHT NOW what you have signed and be aware that they will do the same to you when you stop attending their day care if you keep silent and don’t ask them questions.

I'm new to this site and noticed this posting and many comments. I am a Sheepshead Bayparent and am starting to research day cares in the area for my child, now 18 months we have a babysitter but are looking into daycares for the near-term future. I'm sure alot of you have some recommendations and experiences with this namely Mike from what I read below. If you could please contact me and le me know your thoughts I would greatly appreciate it.
I, like many others, just want a safe, healthy environment for my child to thrive in.

Parents who would like to recommend day care centers for Aisle79 can reply directly to Aisle79's comment, or if they want to contact her directly they can e-mail me at nberke [at] sheepsheadbites [dot] com, and we will forward the info. Thank you.

My children have been attending this daycare at the new Avenue Y location for 3 months now and I cannot complain about 1 little things. Both children are cared for by their teachers. The children are clean and happy when they come home and are happy when its time to back the next day. That is the first sign parents look for if they feel something may be wrong. The owners Irina and Boris form relationships with parents and ensure that you are kept up to date on all that goes on with your child throught the day. You are also free to sit in the office and see for yourself what your child is doing and how they are interacting with other children and teachers.
Don't know the reason for all these negative remarks about brnad names and gourment meals. I haven't seen any snobs picking up their children or any children snubbing the other children. I came by several times when they were eating lunch and they indeed were being served a hot lunch (with all four) nannies working at the same time. The Catereria is kept very clean as are the children after they eat. My children get dirtier at home when I feed them.

Bottom line, this daycare is worth trying. Not many daycares will allow worried parents to call them several times a day to reassure themselves that everything is OK but Irina absolutely keeps the lines of communication open to you can rest easy.
Don't take my word for it, see for yourself.
PS. I am not an owner / partner / or percent shareholder

FOOD QUALITY: what a day care is this if it doesn’t smell home-made food? They never serve fresh vegetables, fruit, or dairy products like cottage cheese or yogurt. As a result, the kids that left this day care in November and December lost 3-5 pounds in 3 months, had major food allergy symptoms, negative blood tests results, weakened immune systems, were sick every other week, and were recommended by the pediatricians to change this day care ASAP. All those kids do not get sick as often as before, gain weight, and thrive as soon as they transferred to other day cares in the neighborhood.
Other MEDICAL SIDE EFFECTS: By the way, there was a case of CHILD ABUSE in October followed up by the DOH investigation and there was another case in November of a child being scared and scolded by the teachers so that the child started peeing and stutter!!!

Dear Crazymom,

I am really confused about your comments. Does your child still attend the daycare? My personal experiences are far different from the ones you describe.
I do have an older child that goes there as well and he tells me everyday what they are fed. He always tells me that they serve a hot side dish like, mashed potatoes, rice or macaroni, and a main dish like cutlets, chiken, or hot dogs.
Soup is only what they serve before bed time.
Additionally, the daycare held a PTA meeting for all parents to attend which is the only daycare I know of that did this. There, they welcomed parents to come during mealtimes to see what there children were earting. Also, they have a menu posted weekly in their main lobby.
I am just wondering why we have such different outlooks on the same daycare???

I have a feeling you are the owner of the day care or closely related to them. As only yesterday in court all those things were mentioned and now today the first thing in the morning you are writing about the positive side. No, we quit this awful place just like other 6 kids din in mid-December and now we are suing them in small court as a group claim. I hope you won't end up like we did as by the time you realize how much your kid lost in weight and how many times he/she gets sick and decide to change daycare, they will sue you for not following their falsified contract you signed for monthly payments and they introduce it in court as a yearly contract.

TELEPHONE CALLS: I was told not to call anymore when my child started a day care there. I called only once a day just to check on my kid. They said they will call me in case of something. And yes, they called me once after that to say that the kid ate and was OK, but that’s it. All my further calls were disregarded.

MEALS: My baby is not a good eater and chewer and I asked if I should bring my own food to co-feed. I was told not to. Irina said, “Our kids are never hungry, we always have juice and cookies.” And that exactly what they feed the kids there all day long to keep them fool – cookies! You can say it by the kid’s poop!!!

1. MEALS: I wasn’t allowed to attend my child during meal times and I tell you WHY: A few times when I dropped my kid later, I saw nothing better than a few spoons of cereal with cold milk or bread with butter. The teachers lie about food there. The teacher in the class at pick-up time said they ate “oatmeal porridge” today, while the teacher outside said they ate “semolina porridge.”While the other parent on the same day said they came in later that day and saw the kids eating only bread and butter. Who should I believe?
For lunch they give 5 spoons of vegetable soup, that I personally witnessed a few times when I dropped the child at lunch time, the soup didn’t smell good, was of grey color, had no meat, I was told that the meat will be served for dinner that day. Later on that day I was told that they ate sausage and macaroni for dinner. So where’s the promised meat from the soup? The kid didn’t want to eat it and the teacher said “but it’s the same one you ate yesterday, common, eat it today too.” On numerous occasions I was told that my child was fed food from 2 or 3 days ago. A few parents were told different menus for the same days.
That’s what they call “3 hot home-made meals a day”?
That’s why they never post a menu!

RELATIONSHIPS WITH PARENTS:
I was never clearly answered what my child ate that day and if she did # 2 due to very often cases of constipation because of all the cookies and bad food they serve there. Surprisingly, on the weekend the kid’s #2 was normal!!! The baby never suffered from those problems before this day care and doesn’t have any problems now in the new day care where they really serve home-made fresh food and have menus available for parents.

Both Ira and Boris are very rude to parents. They are very sweet when they advertise and change their tones when parents already bring their kid there. On a numerous occasions I was confronted with “what do you want?” straight to my face when I approached the door.
WHAT WITH SUCH A HIGH SECURITY? - I mean all those LOCKED gates and doors outside, at the entrance, and each room? This is just to keep officials and parents outside as much as possible to notify the teachers on walky-talky about the coming unwelcomed guest, and have enough time to straighten everything up. Have you seen so many locked door s and parents waiting outside for 10-15 minutes in any other day care? That’s why when you were sitting in their office and stared at the camera screens, all the teachers were already notified in advance that they are being watched, so of course they would behave!!!

Sound like they did you dirty. Go get some local news to investigate them: http://www.myfoxny.com/subindex/news/investigative

Now that's evidence, good sleuthing!

At first, Irina and Boris promised refunds to the "crazy" families who immediately quit the day care as the daycare broke several contract rules and DOH regulations. Further staying at that daycare jeopardized child's life and safety. The next day the parents called and were told to come to pick up the refund. However, when the parents came, they were refused the refund. Why all this show and teasing? Another scam? What a nice way to treat the leaving "crazy" parents???

For those who need more evidence than crazy parents of 6 kids transferred to other places:

1. http://www.nyc.gov/html/doh/html/dc/daycarelist... - official website of New York City Department of Health where you can find all the evidence from their present location (under "Research Group Child care") and past locations (under "Research Family, Group Family & School-Age Care") on the right.

A. Present location (1018/1014 Ave Y):

(officials visited the location and questioned the parents after a child abuse case in October and thereafter after numerous parents' complaints on 10/01/2009,10/13/2009, 12/03/2009, and 12/11/2009 - isn't it too much for only 4 months of operation????? Alas, they might have someone in the BOE and DOH, or the "walky-talky, cameras, running from room to room multi-person teachers or "just started" caregivers, suddenly split groups of kids, and their own kids hidden in other rooms" techniques really work and 5-10 minutes of keeping the people in front of the gate or the entrance can change the place into "perfect-looking one" for the officials.

Officially listed violations:
(https://a816-healthpsi.nyc.gov/ChildCare/Histor...)

I. 10/13/09 - Staff member certified in CPR and First Aid not present while children are on site
II. 10/13/09 - Operator or designee has not attended approved infectious disease/child abuse training
III. 12/03/09 - At least one public health hazard, critical or more than five general violations were observed at the time of the inspection; compliance inspection is required. A Notice of Violation was served to the child care service that may result in fines.

B. Previous location of "Royal Crown" (2322 East 13th St.)

License/Registration ID: 317815
listed not under "Royal Crown" but "Natalya Myshkina" (Irina's mom)
First License Issued:08/28/2007,
Current Licensing Period:08/28/2007 to 08/27/2009,
Date of Last Inspection: 4/21/2009
(SO THEY DON'T survive at one location for more than two years and open up the new one after the old one got a lot of violations)

(direct link to the report - http://it.ocfs.ny.gov/ccfs_facilitysearch//view... ): PREVIOUS LOCATION VIOLATIONS:

I.Has there been a serious violation in the past 2 years: Yes. Regulatory violations in the past 24 months and any unresolved violations open longer than 24 months

II. 02/10/2009 - The name, address, gender, and date of birth of each child and each child's parents' names, addresses, telephone numbers and place(s) at which parents or other persons responsible for the child can be reached in case of an emergency must be kept on file and be available for inspection.
III. 01/17/2008 - Sleeping and napping arrangements must be made in writing between the parent and the provider. Such arrangements include: the area of the home where the child will nap; whether the child will nap on a cot, mat, bed or a crib; and how the napping child will be supervised. Sleeping arrangements for infants require that the infant be placed on his or her back to sleep, unless medical information is presented to the provider by the parent that shows that arrangement is inappropriate for that child.
IV. 01/17/2008 - Providers must have written parental consent authorizing provider or other caregivers to obtain emergency health care for the child.

They already have one case pending in small court and there will be more to follow.

Evidence? What can be more evidence than more than 6 kids I personally know in the past few months transferring their kids to other day cares? Unfortunately, my kid had to go through this too. If evidence of everything described above would be easily available for general public and not only to "crazy" parents, these people would be behind the bars already long ago, just after their previous locations were fined and closed for fraudulent illegal activities. I wonder just how long would it take other parents to realize this and make sure that these people never run any day care services in the future. At least in this area. However, a lot of parents, like I was told by the official at the NYC Dep. of Health, do not take any actions to complain and defend their children's rights. They just change a day care and try to forget about all the bad things in the previous care. Especially in the Russian community, because of the lack of the language skills and knowledge of the laws and their rights, many people just let it go and, like almost half of the mothers I talked to at the playgrounds say "But there's nothing else we can do than change the daycare. I transferred my kid and I don't care about anything else going on back there". Yes, they can do, if not for their own kid still in that day care, then for other kids in the neighborhood by reporting them anonymously or by identifying themselves to the NYS Dep. of Health. This way other parents would be aware of the violations and be cautious about choosing it for their kids.
I don't disclose my personal information here for the security of my child that was transferred to another day care and knowing how these people bad mouth other day cares in the area for competition reasons, I don't want my kid be harmed by them any more than it was already done.

Crazy Mom

All these allegations are interesting, and might be true, but it's very difficult to take anyone at their word when they post these types of things anonymously and without any evidence.

Again, to clarify, I'm not claiming or presuming that you're lying, but without knowing who you are we have no way to gauge where all this is coming from.

If you have any evidence that the above is taking place then I invite you to contact Ned, or Ray or hell even me via Email with your evidence. Maybe we can investigate and write a follow-up article with all the right information.

This place definitely sucks! Just to get the idea how unprofessional the staff at Royal Crown Day Care is:
1. They are very rude to parents and call the parents “crazy” and “never satisfied” and reply with “what do you expect for $600 and from Brighton brought-up staff paid only 7$ per hour? ”when parents inquire about:
A. 16 degrees Celsius ( 60 Fahrenheit) in the room while minimum 68 F (or 20 C) is required by NYC Department of Health
B. TV all day long – not any educational stuff, but just to keep kids sitting quiet and shut them up with pacifiers.
C. The junk food stinks, is not fresh, they feed kids leftovers for 2-3 days. That’s why they never provide menus to the parents. According to NYC Dep. Of Health regulations menus should be available to parents. Kids have constant constipation, diarrhea, and food allergies. They feed them sugar and chocolate candy and “vitamins”.
D. They never let parents in, although by the NYC laws parents have the right to have access to the day care premises at any time. They lock the rooms during the day, so the parents still can’t get any closer to their kids than just wait in the hall behind the doors even if parents sneak upstairs unnoticed by video cameras throughout the building or the staff with walky-talky to report any approaching parent or an official and keep them outside in front of the gate or front door for a few minutes in order to be able to send the ALERT notice to the staff. The locked doors are a great life hazard in case of fire but somehow it stays unnoticed by the Fire Department so far.
E. The so-called “teachers” clean the rooms (vacuum clean, wash the floors, dust) in front of the kids during the day although some of the parents stated clearly in the child application that they have dust or chemicals allergy.
F. There are 21 kids with two adults while for kids 18-36 months there should be one adult for five kids, and MAXIMUM 12 kids in a group, not 21 :{.
G. They use frightening, demeaning, body punishment, and humiliating methods so that kids become aggressive, scared, and body punish toys and say that this is how their teachers are doing this.
H. The caregivers rarely wash hands after taking garbage outside, cleaning, changing the diaper, or smoking outside at the playground.

Even after multiple complains to the NYC Department of Health at 212-676-2444 (where you can file anonymous complains which a lot of parents are not aware of), they miraculously are still in business “untouchable” probably due to posted earlier on this forum (on 20 Aug 2009 at 4:42 p.m.) fraudulent past of the owner Irina and Svetlana Lobacheva and AKA Svetlana ( who was also fired from Bambi Academy (that’s why she bad mouths them a lot!!!) and ran illegal day care on the second floor in one of the private houses on both East 13 and East 7 streets)and her partner Boris Rabinovich, and Svetlana’s mom. They must have some serious connections with the officials, like Susan who worked in the board of education for 25 years and was there a few first months when they opened up and were going through the licensing process and then she disappeared as soon as all the formal papers were completed, because they are always notified by someone and thoroughly prepared prior to the inspectors’ visits following up on parents’ complains.

thanks but those are too far for me to walk.
I need something around East 14- Coney Island between Y&Z

bambi, bragg street between u and v
a to z, avenue u and coyle st
happy planet, e21st between t and u.