Long Island got a brief shoutout during Zohran Mamdani’s victory speech Tuesday night — but it was a bit of a head-scratcher.

“Our greatness will be anything but abstract …” said Mamdani, now New York City’s mayor-elect. “It will be felt by each grandparent who can afford to stay in the home they have worked for, and whose grandchildren live nearby because the cost of child care didn’t send them to Long Island.”

Mamdani, who is proposing universally free child care for New York City residents, seemed to be suggesting that right now, the high cost of child care in the city sends families to Long Island, because here, child care is … cheaper?

But the data tells a different story.

The average cost of child care on Long Island in a day care center costs stands at about $24,000 per year, w

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