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
re:”Enough trash talking please – this is really a serious issue. What can be done?”
this is not a serious issue at all. It is hype and superficial nonsense and hysteria over absolutely nothing – but easy to accomplish with this crowd.
Many of the parolees wil be Latin.
11:38…does St Ann’s still teach Latin? I bet not. A further sign of the deterioration of the schools; both public and private.
amo, amas, amant
semper ubi sub ubi!
Pater noster qui es in chaelis, sanctificator nomen tumem…
1st of all it is VERY VERY likely that this has nothing to do with FCR – since the Justice Dept (US Attorney) has rented space in the building since it opened. Therefore, FCR likely has no say in which DOJ dept is using the space.
Additionally, there have been armed ‘guards’ on site for all the time that US Attorney has been there (since it was built)- not only that but every day Federal Officers carrying weapons come in and out of the building. And finally the space being used for this, used to be used (partially) for questioning cooperating (or sorta cooperating) witnesses – who are often incarcerated. So for almost 20 years, shackled prisoners, surrounded by armed agents were being shuttled into this space – and NO ONE CARED.
Finally, I believe the current Parole Facility is just up the street on Clinton (between Joralemon and Remsen) – so I really doubt whether a 2 block move and consolidation will have ANY effect on public safety.
Excuse me, but “Ad Hominem” is a specific attack against a *specific person*. People are taking the piss out of generalities. Anyway, it would be ad puerem or ad puellam, since we are talking kiddies. I would have thought Brownstoner readers would know better. More evidence of the deterioration of this site.
Well, all I have to say is that it will make that tiny stretch of DeKalb across from Junior’s less sketchy to walk down, since the parolees that congregate outside the current facility are not particularly congenial. Or maybe that’s a Kings County facility there.
Enough trash talking please – this is really a serious issue. What can be done?
How often does a parolee have to check-in in person anyway? Once a month? I doubt even that. I mean it seems to me that “serving 1700 parolees” means it’s offices for a bunch of parole officers in cubicles working the phones. MAYBE there would be 20 parolees in there a day?
I suspect the armed guards are to protect the officers from someone coming in in a bad mood. A really really bad mood.
Does St. Ann’s still have a smoking room for students or do they have to smoke outside now with the parolees?
All of those faci.ities have recessed lighting. They are still installing it.