Phyl's Day Care Center, Inc.

City-funded organization

Phyl's Day Care Center, Inc., doing business as Phyl's Academy, is a Brooklyn day care and preparatory school founded in 1979 by registered nurse Phyllis Frempong-Boadu, according to the school's own history page; it operates at 3520 Tilden Avenue in Brooklyn. It has held $35 million in New York City Department of Education and Department of Youth and Community Development contracts since 2013, all now inactive, and has been paid $29 million to date. 24% of that contract value ($8 million across 3 contracts) was awarded without a fresh competitive bid, per Checkbook NYC's award-method labels, in a contract marked "Renewal (not re-bid)"; its largest contract, a $22 million UPK-BTF award that ended in 2026, was competitively bid through RFP. Two smaller pandemic-era contracts, for Learning Lab programming ($926,280) and the Learning Bridges Program ($399,109), were each labeled "Emergency" awards.

Industry (per city contracts)
Human Services
City contracts
none active as of 2026-08-22 · $34,619,490 awarded since 2013
Paid to date
$29,388,939
Won without a fresh bid
24% of contract value · $8,362,574 · 3 contracts

Holds contracts at

City contracts

Registered city contracts, largest first by current contract value (not amount spent): running now, then registered to start later, then ended. Totals count every registered contract. Each line shows its Checkbook contract ID. The tag on each row is how it was awarded (“no-bid” = non-competitive).

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