Parole Facility Planned Next Door to St. Ann's School
The U.S. Attorney’s Office is planning to open a major parole facility at 147 Pierrepont Street, a Ratner-owned property located between the lower and middle school buildings of St. Ann’s School in Brooklyn Heights. The new center, which would consolidate two existing parole offices in the Downtown area, is slated to serve 1,700 Federal parolees…
The U.S. Attorney’s Office is planning to open a major parole facility at 147 Pierrepont Street, a Ratner-owned property located between the lower and middle school buildings of St. Ann’s School in Brooklyn Heights. The new center, which would consolidate two existing parole offices in the Downtown area, is slated to serve 1,700 Federal parolees and be manned by armed guards, according to an email from a member of the school community. A call to Congresswoman Nydia Velazquez’s office revealed that she and other public officials are trying to schedule a press conference at some point in the future to protest the location of the new facility. They better get moving: The new space (pictured on the jump) is supposed to be open for business as early as mid-August, just in time to welcome the kids back to school. UPDATE: This statement just in from Congresswoman Nydia M. Velázquez: Locating a parole office just steps away from a school is extremely troubling. Anything that puts the security of our children at risk is unacceptable. Before all other considerations, their safety must be the top priority.GMAP
You people are so knee-jerk and so easily manipulated. A bit of sensationalism and you all bite. For what I would think is a pretty well educated crowd you really can overreact to anything.
The damned court houses are across the street with plenty of ‘armed guards’ and potentially dangerous criminals. And the street is filled with all the court personnel. If St. Ann’s school ever thought it was a threat – why is there school down there?
FCS – lots of places have ‘armed guards’ – even schools already.
great news!
keep bkln gritty!
The ad hominem attacks against school kids don’t really have a place in this discussion.
HA HA HA HAaaaaaa
A parole office next to St Ann’s School! With armed guards!! You can’t make this stuff up.
What is the BHA up to? Fighting for the protection of heritage roses on Garden Place?
Lobbying to have the street parking in the neighborhood limited to Caucasians only?
Too funny. I think an emergency meeting will need to be called at the Episcopal church of East Hampton to discuss this latest kerfuffle.
St. Ann’s is already a hotbed of drug dealers.
And this particular building on Pierrepont houses Morgan Stanley.
And, hell, the building belongs to The Rat
You mean they’re JUST getting around to adding the parole office?
I’m not entirely against this facility since I believe that as a society we need to bear the burden of all of our members, including those who commit crimes. For full disclosure, I am closely connected to both St. Ann’s and Brooklyn Heights.
All the St. Ann’s parents or residents of Brooklyn Heights that support the “Stop the Jail” movement (to prevent the Brooklyn House of Detention from being put into use again) should reconsider their priorities.
The BHoD SHOULD be reopened for many reasons (albeit with changes) – from decreasing the cost of daily travel to/from Rikers, to easing the overcrowding issues, to a case like this, where space for a parole facility would not be difficult to accommodate.
there are court houses all over the area and plenty of other places to put the parole center. Also in the neighborhood. next to a school? No.
Ah, yes iluvclintonhill, but is that in a “family neighborhood?” No seriously, that comment bugged me too. St. Ann’s isn’t even in a particularly residential corridor!
What will they think of next? Putting a jail next to Brooklyn Friends?
Oh, wait…
So just so I have this straight.
We can’t sell oysters and beer on Hoyt Street because it’s 196 feet from a church.
But we can put Federal parolees in an armed building across the street from an elementary and middle school.