By: Robert Cox
NEW ROCHELLE, NY (July 11, 2026) — On June 29, 2017, a mother arrived at Anna & Jack’s Treehouse, 136-138 Centre Ave. — the New Rochelle location owned by Rob and Christina Rubicco, which remains open at that address today — to pick up her daughter and was told the child could not be found. The day care had not called 911. It was the mother who went out onto the street and flagged down a passing patrol officer, setting off a five-unit police canvass that ended with an officer pulling the 2½-year-old, by her feet, out of a hollow plastic limb inside a play tree house, where state regulators would later determine she had been trapped for 35 to 40 minutes.















