Once Upon A Time Pre-School & Daycare
A day care center in Putnam Valley, New York 10579
47 Peekskill Hollow Road, Putnam Valley, New York 10579. (845) 284-2941.
What New York’s list coversOutside New York City
Programs New York State’s Office of Children and Family Services licenses or registers outside New York City, each county added once it is read in full. Programs in the city’s five boroughs, including the day care centers its Health Department regulates, aren’t here yet.
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The short answer
Record last released by New York State Office of Children and Family Services on Nov 5, 2026.
- 3 violations in the last three years
- Sep 112026 the latest visit on record
- 65 children, its licensed capacity
Each figure’s source sits beside it, in its section below.
What these words mean4
- Inspection (survey)
- A visit by state inspectors, often unannounced, who check a place against the rules it must meet. For nursing homes and other places Medicare pays, CMS calls these visits surveys: a standard survey of a nursing home comes at least every 15 months, and a complaint survey whenever a complaint calls for one. Source: CMS; 42 CFR 488.308.
- Deficiency, citation, violation
- What inspectors write up when a place didn’t meet a rule: the rule, what they saw, and when. CMS calls it a deficiency; states may say citation or violation. It is the inspectors’ finding, not a court’s, and the place is usually asked for a plan to correct it. Source: CMS, statement of deficiencies (Form CMS-2567); each state’s licensing agency.
- Licence status
- Whether the state’s licence lets the place operate now, in the state’s own words: licensed, on probation (allowed to keep operating on conditions, after problems), provisional, pending or expired. Source: Each state’s licensing agency.
- Capacity
- The most people the licence or certification lets the place care for at once: residents, children, beds or apartments, as the state counts them. It isn’t how many are there now. Source: Each state’s licensing agency.
What did inspectors find?
12 inspections in the last three years, the latest on Sep 11, 2026.
3 violations cited in the last three years.
New York State Office of Children and Family Services, Program pages: inspection and complaint history. Checked Oct 19, 2026. Updated daily.
When those violations happened
3 violations in 2 months of the last 36. Last cited Jul 2026. The last 3 years, to Nov 5, 2026.
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| 2025 | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov | Dec |
| 2026 | Jan | Feb | Mar | Apr | May | Jun | Jul | Aug | Sep | Oct | Nov |
Hover or focus a month to read it.
Hearth Record drew this from the dates and levels in the source’s own records.
Each violation, in its source’s words
Grouped by visit, newest first, with the level its source gave it.
New York State Office of Children and Family Services, Program pages: inspection and complaint history. Checked Oct 19, 2026. Updated daily.
Jul 24, 2026: monitoring1 violation
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Each day care center shall require any and all visitors to the facility to: sign out upon departure from the facility indicating in writing the time of departure.
Feb 2, 2024: complaint investigation2 violations
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The licensee must prepare a health care plan on forms furnished by the Office. Such plan must protect and promote the health of children. The health care plan must be on site, followed by all staff and available upon demand by a parent or the Office. In those instances in which the program will administer medications, the health care plan must also be approved by the program’s health care consultant unless the only medications to be administered are:
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The health care plan must describe the following: how a daily health check of each child for any indication of illness, injury, abuse or maltreatment will be conducted and documented;
All 13 visits on record
| Date | Visit | What the record says |
|---|---|---|
| Sep 11, 2026 | Application - Renewal | No violations found |
| Jul 24, 2026 | Monitoring | 1 violation cited |
| Apr 15, 2026 | Monitoring | No violations found |
| Feb 4, 2026 | Annual Unannounced | No violations found |
| Nov 14, 2025 | Monitoring | No violations found |
| Sep 4, 2025 | Monitoring | No violations found |
| Apr 10, 2025 | Monitoring | No violations found |
| Jan 21, 2025 | Annual Unannounced | No violations found |
| Sep 12, 2024 | Monitoring | No violations found |
| May 29, 2024 | Monitoring | No violations found |
| Feb 8, 2024 | Monitoring | No violations found |
| Feb 2, 2024 | Complaint | Complaint (Unsubstantiated); 2 violations cited |
| Jan 11, 2024 | Annual Unannounced | No violations found |
Is it licensed?
- Day Care Center, open since Aug 31, 2012.
- School district: Putnam Valley.
- Capacity, in New York’s words: 8 Infants, 12 Toddlers, 33 Preschoolers and 12 School-Aged Children.
- Keeps epinephrine auto-injectors for emergencies.
- Licence 556796, issued Aug 31, 2022, with an expiration date of Aug 30, 2026, which has passed.
- Capacity: 65 children.
New York State Office of Children and Family Services, Child Care Regulated Programs. Released Nov 5, 2026. Updated daily.
New York State Office of Children and Family Services, Program pages: inspection and complaint history. Checked Oct 19, 2026. Updated daily.
Has New York acted against it?
- 1 complaint in the last three years. New York’s status for each: Complaint (Unsubstantiated) (1).
New York State Office of Children and Family Services, Program pages: inspection and complaint history. Checked Oct 19, 2026. Updated daily.
New York State Office of Children and Family Services, Child Care Regulated Programs. Released Nov 5, 2026. Updated daily.
| Date | What | Detail |
|---|---|---|
| Feb 2, 2024 | Complaint (Unsubstantiated) | New York’s status for this complaint: Complaint (Unsubstantiated). |
Who does the caring?
- New York doesn’t publish staffing levels for individual programs.
Who owns it?
- New York’s open data doesn’t list owners.
How is it rated?
- Doesn’t take part in QUALITYstarsNY, New York’s quality rating program.
New York State Office of Children and Family Services, Program pages: inspection and complaint history. Checked Oct 19, 2026. Updated daily.
How does it compare nearby?
- Among 59 child care providers in Putnam County, the middle value for violations cited in the last three years was 3; this one had 3.
New York State Office of Children and Family Services, Program pages: inspection and complaint history. Checked Oct 19, 2026. Updated daily.
| Place | Violations cited in the last three years |
|---|---|
| Valley Day Care Center Ltd. | 4 |
| Town of Putnam Valley | 0 |
| Town of Putnam Valley | 2 |
| Once Upon A Time Pre-School & Daycare This child care provider | 3 |
| My Three Cubs Daycare LLC | 0 |
| K Day Care Inc. | 5 |
| Pine Grove Country Day Care at Baldwin Park | 3 |
| Sing Along Family Child Care | 0 |
| Parkside Preschool | 0 |
| YMCA of Central and Northern Westchester | 15 |
| Griesch, Kristen | 8 |
| Green Chimneys Children’s Servces, Inc. | 1 |
What the record doesn’t say
- New York’s list of programs gives an expiration date that has passed, and doesn’t say whether the licence was renewed; New York’s own search has its current status.
- New York doesn’t grade violations by severity, so read what was cited.
- New York’s records give the regulation behind each violation, not what the inspector saw.
- New York’s program pages cover four calendar years; this page shows the last three years.
- New York doesn’t publish staffing levels or owners for individual programs.
Sources
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New York State Office of Children and Family Services, Child Care Regulated Programs (cb42-qumz).
Released Nov 5, 2026 and checked Nov 5, 2026. Updated daily. No licence stated.
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New York State Office of Children and Family Services, Program pages: inspection and complaint history.
Checked Oct 19, 2026. Updated daily. No licence stated.
If you believe something here is wrong, a correction starts with the agency whose record this copies: New York State Office of Children and Family Services. New York’s own record is on hs.ocfs.ny.gov. If Hearth Record copied something wrongly, it will fix it and log the correction publicly, with its date: how corrections work.
This copy of the record was made on Nov 5, 2026.
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