More and more for New York City parents, it seems like if you snooze, you lose.
And not even a long snooze, either. A recent story in the New York Times
[http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/24/nyregion/for-new-york-city-parents-a-waiting-list-for-nearly-everything.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1]
explains that though there are