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
At least, based on the picture above, it appears the new facility doesn’t have recessed lighting!
I don’t mind this too much and I live on Pierrepont. We have lots of prisoners around here — have a court house and you get prisoners. Saw a guy shuffled off if cuffs yesterday from a facility on Pierrepont/Clinton into a car.
But I do think the traffic situation on this block is around at the breaking point. St Ann’s buses on Pierrepont, St Ann’s parents and their SUVs on Pierrepont, bull shit placard parking on Pierrepont/Monroe/Clinton and the cab traffic on Clinton. It’s too much
This is terrible. Those parolees are just trying to get lives together, who will protect them from the St Ann students?
“I suggest they put the CH men’s homeless shelter here as well.”
Agreed. Crown Heights is too dangerous. It’s really too dangerous for habitation of any kind.
While I agree that this discussion is no place for ad hominem attacks against schoolkids, I will say as a Saint Anns Alum that most of these “attacks” (read: Jokes) are pretty funny if a little obvious. Unfortunately, I think the joint has gone much more straight laced in the past 5 years and having guys who just got out of the actual joint is going to bother them a lot more than it would have back in the Bosworthian, freewheeling days. In my day they would have sent us over there to do interviews with parolees for our creative writing seminars.
The plan that the anti-HOD(house of detention)people have supported includes a half way house for reforming offenders(or more accurately finishing their current incarceration sentences)…..me I prefer if they keep them in a lock up…
Its a FEDERAL halfway house. No notice was given to local officials…and they don’t necessarily have to give notice but this is an example of how Forest City/Ratner works with the community…..
Mr. B, would you please refrain from saying “on the jump”? It’s embarrassing.
Thanks.
WonTon has the best posting.
This should be seen as a real convenience to the former hedge fund managers who need to check in with their PO once a day.