Brooklyn House of Detention Plans Falter
Ideas for adding new uses to the Brooklyn House of Detention seem to be going nowhere. After the Observer reported that the city was giving up on its plan to allow for retail and condos jail because of a lack of developer interest, the Brooklyn Paper followed up last week with an article saying there’s…
Ideas for adding new uses to the Brooklyn House of Detention seem to be going nowhere. After the Observer reported that the city was giving up on its plan to allow for retail and condos jail because of a lack of developer interest, the Brooklyn Paper followed up last week with an article saying there’s been talk of putting a new middle school in the jail at Atlantic and Smith. This week, though, the paper files a story saying city has officially abandoned the school-jail proposal. The condo plan was originally floated because the city wants to make the jail’s 2012 reopening and expansion (it’s supposed to go from 749 to 1,469 inmates) more palatable to the surrounding community. Last week Marty Markowitz told the Daily News that he’s still searching for “creative ideas for the site.”
Sorry Bids Shove Shiv in City’s Plans to Expand Brooklyn Jail [NY Observer] GMAP
Jail Middle School is Sentenced to Death [Brooklyn Paper]
Lock ‘Em Up [Brooklyn Paper]
No go for new Condominium Complex [NY Daily News]
make it a jail/ rehab clinic facility
throw in some offices for city agencies for good measure
Sam, you mention extremely residential neighborhoods. There are other options on the opposite end of the scale.
Park Slope
How can you reason with someone that is intent on shooting themselves in the foot? Well in this case, that someone is Brooklyn.
Where should they build the new prison? Park Slope? Clinton Hill? Carroll Gardens? I’m sure we all could come up with great locations -in someone else’s neighborhood.
“I agree why doesnt that HACK – Gersh Kuntzman actually do some reporting for a change instead of just using his paper as a propaganda sheet for every overblown claim of DDDB.”
Not to mention playing Bon Vivant in Brooklyn, Iowa. What a schlemiel!
Tear it down, and build the prison someplace else, perhaps near the federal prison on the harbor in Brooklyn. Maybe a new Civil Court could be built there. (I will hold a part when the current horror in Livingston St. is razed!)
tear it down, and build the prison someplace else, perhaps near the federal prison on the harbor in Brooklyn.
11:55 – but based on that logic (which I also heard) most of the BHD is really only needed temporarily (until Rikers revamp is completed). Sorry but no matter how you slice it – this is a total clustf^ck