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
Unbelievable; it is almost like there is a group conspiring to ruin all of the progress made over the last 10 years or so…jails, large parole offices, etc. Of course this is NIMBYism at its finest, but is this really the proper place for a parole office…in the middle of a school? …this would be absurd in any family neighborhood.
Eastern District encompasses Brooklyn, Queens, Staten Island, Long Island. Manhattan. Manhattan and the Bronx fall under the Southern District.
Time to call St. Ann’s and ask for the “Parole discount.”
Then wouldn’t the laws stop the center from being put next to a school? I mean, I wouldn’t care if they were Wall St. people (drug dealers/transporters seems far worse than that)- the fact that you have a facility with armed guards and parolees walking in and out with schoolchildren next door just sounds nuts to me.
Question, 9:23- What’s the eastern District? What district would Wall Street offenders fall under?
could you imagine paying all that money, dutifully filling out forms, standing on waiting lists so your children can attend St Anns and then this happens.
I suggest they put the CH men’s homeless shelter here as well.
Highly unlikely that FEDERAL parolees include sex offenders–only the Mann Act (interstate transport of women for immoral purposes). And this is the Eastern District, which doesn’t include Wall St, so it’s not going to be securities fraud in general.
These will mostly be drug dealers/transporters–many picked up at the airports.
the jail is one thing but this? Are they crazy? A parole facility with armed guards next to a middle school? And did you notice who owns the building? Ratner.
What about the sex offenders law? Don’t they have to be kept a certain distance form schools and children? It can’t be legal to do this.
So since this is Federal parolees – (not your state court mugger, rapist, child molester cases) –
where there is lots of white collar crime – maybe they are trying to make it easier for the Wall St types to check in with the parole officer.