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
the st ann’s guards don’t have guns.
but I’m laughing so hard at the idea of a whole TEAM of strong young white guys getting held up. also laughing at an idea of an OUNCE of pot! oh my!
St Ann’s can offer English as a Second language to the former drug smugglers. They can also probably get useful tips from the students on how to look innocent while carrying a ton of illegal substances.
The armed guards are the really scary part. Parolees at least are under supervision. Men with guns near all those kids — that’s something to worry about.
Now the kids who smoke on the steps of the Appellate Division on Monroe St will be able to flout authority even closer to home.
St Ann’s has classes IN that building.
Hmph. A St Ann’s alum should know better. Strait-laced, not straight laced. From strait=tight, referring to an tight corset holding the wearer upright, not unfashionable sneakers.
Let’s see.. In the mid-80s, I found an ounce of pot in the 10th floor music room. In the 90s,20% of the kids dealt drugs. There were gangs on montague st, and panhandlers outside everywhere.
The ENTIRE soccer team got mugged /robbed at the projects.
It is half a block between the two buildings, and St ann’s has guards at both of them. Total non-issue, and if anything, it will knock off some of the sense of entitlement
funny, 10:29- an awful lot of people prove you wrong.
The scariest place I have ever been was visiting a dx at LICH in Carroll Gardens. They treat current convicted criminals I guess. Even with 2 armed guards I felt like I was in an elevator with Hanibal Lector. But that said there are an awful lot of people out on our streets, even in fine “family neighborhoods” (whatever that is) that have criminal records. Much more than anybody can imagine. This is a problem that exists everywhere in NYC. And it’s only going to get worse. There is a huge percentage of young men locked up. They eventually get out. And then what is there for them to do in NYC when they have trouble getting a job? Cause trouble or hang out and live at a relative’s are the easy options.