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
glad to hear Valazquez is going to pander to some screechy uninformed private school parents.
The school locates itself right near the court houses and office buildings filled with govt and lawyers, etc.
If you don’t think it is safe – don’t send your kid there.
They teach Greek too? Just thought I’d jumpstart the thread with that one!!
We confirmed it with Velazquez’s office, 2:32
Has anyone considered that Brownstoner is wrong? It doesn’t cite any source that says a parole facility is coming in?
“I hear Biff is an Inuit.”
No, Biff is an *idiot*.
It’s a common mistake.
Thanks sam. I’m not sure that was ethnically or culturally sensitive, but it was funny.
10:12,
by “Caucasian only parking” are you by any chance referring to the residents-only parking initiative?
There are several non-caucasian residents in the Heights, I think.
I hear Biff is an Inuit.
They’re on parole. That means they are walking among you already.
Also, isn’t within 50 feet of the parole office about the LAST place anyone would committ a crime?
frsq — Forest City Ratner could have a say IF the proposed use would violate the terms of the lease. They couldn’t use the building as an actual jail, in other words. But, the fact that this is probably consistent with the DOJ’s lease is, itself, evidence that there’s nothing to worry about.
Plus, anyone who DOES freak out at the mere presence of a parole office DESERVES to be made a bit uncomfortable.
this isnt’ really a serious issue since they are moving just two blocks down. and they’d been at the previous location (around the corner from Packer) for decades without incident