Star America, Inc.

City-funded organization

Star America, Inc. operates early childhood education programs in New York City, including a Universal Pre-Kindergarten program at 780 8th Avenue in Midtown Manhattan, and describes itself on its own website as educating Pre-K children for over 21 years and as a member of QUALITYstarsNY, the state's early-childhood quality-rating system. It has held $35 million in New York City Department of Education contracts since 2010, all now inactive, and has been paid $29 million to date. 25% of that contract value ($8 million across 5 contracts) was awarded without a fresh competitive bid, per Checkbook NYC's award-method labels, in contracts marked "Renewal (not re-bid)"; the remaining contracts, including two UPK-BTF awards worth $9 million and $8 million, were competitively bid through RFP.

Industry (per city contracts)
Human Services
City contracts
none active as of 2026-08-22 · $34,647,943 awarded since 2010
Paid to date
$28,966,379
Won without a fresh bid
25% of contract value · $8,497,057 · 5 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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