
Image Caption: Girotondo, an Italian language day care, operates out of a two-family townhouse in Bed-Stuy.

Image Caption: Sandra Rodrigues Pinto, a creative director based in Switzerland, worked with the modular furniture company USM to create a high-design baby changing table.

Image Caption: Shaina Polazzo, 15, built a business painting portraits of houses in her Bedford Stuyvesant, Brooklyn neighborhood.

Image Caption: New York’s tight rental market is compelling first-time parents to opt for equally tight spaces.