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
I get it. All people who aren’t rich, who can’t afford to go to St. Ann’s are losers and actually pay to support the little people in this city. The fact that all my St. Ann’s alum friends are talented, unrecognized artists, with trust funds and drug addiction problems — mere coincidence! Thanks for educating us all on this blog. The internet is awesome. Let me know when to sign up for times to help you guys with your important cause. We like to help out abusive, arrogant, narcissistic parents who just want to pay to keep their kids safe so they don’t have to be bothered with the actual needs of their off-spring, and can work their 70+ hour work week without any lingering guilt brought on (as was so helpfully pointed out in a post above) by gossiping, leftie hippie-types they might happen to see in some park somewhere who might actually expect parents to care about other people besides their off-spring; ie: public school kids or (gasp!) homeless people.
7:40 – is your brain the size of pea?
College entrance exams, extracurricullar activities, personal essays, references and very thoughtful and detailed analysis accompany the application. This is done by some very qualified individuals highly experienced in choosing the right school for the person.
Do you know that St. Ann’s does not even give grades? How does a college know if a kid is a good student wothout grades? Well, if your parents pay for you to get though St Ann’s, you have the grades, you know? wink wink. If you are a scholarship student, you’re screwed. Go back where you came from and lotsa luck.
You make a lot of assumptions. What % of private school children do you believe fit your description. Any financial planner would tell you that do not bank on the inheritance, inflation risk, investment risk. Give the kids a break you angry misinformed person. Do you really think that the heirs to Johnson and Johnson go to St Anns – get a clue. Oh and about 20% are there on Financial aid scholarship obtained largely through tuition padding and active engaged fundraising. sounds like an awful group of people. Donating time and money to BAM, Prospect Park, etc – have a good weekend.
I don’t think we have to worry too much about the snotty rich kids that go to St. Ann’s. Even if they never do a thing with their lives, they will always be rich. For starters they will get into the best colleges as the children of alumni, and then they will get top jobs at companies and firms run by their parents’ circle, after working maybe for three or four years, they will inherit their grandparents and parents’ multi-million dollar houses and co-ops and country estates. They are called the privileged class for a reason.
St anns should move. I didn’t like the crowded feel of the surrounding environment for a school when I looked. Maybe Jersey City. could increase water taxi traffic, give easy access from Wall street and provide potential for nautical studies.
Whether these kids go to Private School or Public school, the fact still remains that they come out/in the building, and there are armed guards all around them… I don’t think they will feel exactly “safe” even though the guards are supposedly the “good guys”.
Really, I bet Saint Anns is going to lose some students – this can’t be good for buisness.
Also, it can’t be good in and of itself – Ratner owns the building!
11:04 – excellent point. It seems to be fair game to attack people because they have some measure of success in life and choose not to engage with the BOE – regardless of the countless other charitable endeavours that they support both financially and otherwise.
12:09 – not scared at all. makes perfect sense. yes money fuels the city. To pay the police, the garbage men, to feed the poor, to service the sick and the elderly, provide shelter to less fortunate…need i go on. It all takes money and generous welll educated or endowed people. If they choose to go to Private School this is the least of your worries. No hiding here – fully embracing reality though.
Is it me or are others scared that 8:39 is a dx and a parent too? And thank goodness we have been enlightened by the gentry at 8:48 that your tax base is what fuels this city. That is pretty funny. Comments like this do so much to make your cause a mockery. Seems to me you are waking up to see what kind of forest we all really live in here in the big city mister. Can’t hide behind those trees. Better high tail it over to Greenwich asap!