Closing daycare centers has wider implications than you'd expect - six of centers are in newly-gentrified areas of Brooklyn, and their loss will further the gentrification as residents who can't afford care move to other neighborhoods.

A list of the 15 day care centers that are scheduled to close in July, 10 of them in Brooklyn, was released by the Administration for Children's Services, and the agency tried to head off protests by unions, elected officials and families that have vowed to fight the closings.

City officials countered that most of the centers to be closed are in neighborhoods that no longer need as many slots for children in low-income families.

Those neighborhoods include Cobble Hill, Boerum Hill, Prospect Heights and Clinton Hill, according to the list of day care centers provided by Children's Services; 324 other centers will stay open.