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The Cypress Hills Child Care in the Brooklyn neighborhood of the same name provides day care for 70 children, including little Alexander Garcia.

“My son loves it,” said Francia Garcia, Alexander's mother.

Francia Garcia loves it even more, as she is a single mother who goes to school and works. She is proud that she is not on public assistance, but taxpayers do help pay for her child care.

“He’s learning a lot in day care. That way, he can be prepared when he goes to school,” said Garcia.

The Garcias and 13 other families at Cypress Hills learned recently that their children’s subsidies are among the 16,000 the city Administration for Children’s Services cut.

“I don’t know. I can't -- I don't even want to think about it,” said Garcia.

ACS sent NY1 a statement saying, "The City must take action to address the more than $90 million budget shortfall caused by rising costs.... We chose to approach these difficult service reductions by limiting the impact to families who have been receiving child care assistance for an average of nine years.”

Gregory Brender’s United Neighborhood Houses of New York works to help lower income New Yorkers.

“You as a young child shouldn’t be punished because you have older brothers or sisters who have already taken advantage of care,” said Brender.

City officials say more than half of the children cut are school-age and many may qualify for other before-school or after-school programs.

However, little Alexander is not school age yet

“How am I going to do so many things, especially for him?” said Garcia.

As Garcia worries about her son's care, Alexander and thousands of children may fall behind in class before they even get there.