New York City Children's Center
New York City Children's Center is a state-operated psychiatric hospital for children and adolescents in New York City, operated by the New York State Office of Mental Health. It provides inpatient and outpatient mental and behavioral health services through multiple campuses in the city. It has a fixed 184-bed capacity and a budgeted capacity for 92 beds as of 2025.
History
Queens campus
The center's Queens campus traces its origins to the opening of the Queens Children's Hospital in February 1970; it was renamed the Queens Children's Psychiatric Center in 1975.In the early 2000s, proposals to relocate the Queens Children's Psychiatric Center to the Creedmoor Psychiatric Center campus drew local opposition; a 2002 report stated the relocation would not be included in the state budget and the facility would remain at its existing site.
Bronx campus
NYCCC's Bronx campus was established at the Bronx Behavioral Health Campus in an OMH facility complex that included a children's psychiatric center. In 2016, it had a capacity for 86 beds.In 2022, there were statewide reductions in children's state-hospital psychiatric beds under New York's OMH "Transformation Plan," with the most significant reduction occurring at NYCCC in 2021.
In 2025, Governor Kathy Hochul's office announced the opening of a state-funded 21-bed inpatient psychiatric facility for youth at the NYCCC Bronx campus, operated by Montefiore Medical Center.