New York City parents are pissed.

Parents with children under 6 are more than twice as likely to leave New York City than those without children, according to research released last year. Child care is second only to housing when it comes to the costs pushing families to the financial brink. Now, with the mayor’s race largely revolving around affordability, a powerful new political force has emerged: the child care voter.

So far, only Zohran Mamdani has spoken most directly to these concerns, winning over some voters.

“This place is basically like second rent,” Kavita Maginn, 37, said of the child care center where she and her husband send their 21-month-old son Ami in Ditmas Park, Brooklyn.

Maginn, who works in marketing, experienced the jarring realization many New Yorkers who've h

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