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As part of the plan to replace Rikers, Brooklyn gets its own new highrise jail.

Brooklynites denounce plan for 40-story Rikers-replacing jail

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Opponents of the proposal to raze the current 815-bed jail at 275 Atlantic Avenue and build a new 1,110-bed jail roughly eight times the size criticized the city for not first consulting with local community leaders before unveiling the proposal in August. It’s part of the city’s plan to close the nine remaining jails on scandal-plagued Rikers Island and move inmates to four borough-based facilities closer to their homes. In order for that to happen, the jail population must be reduced to 5,000 people. Currently, there are approximately 8,200 people who are awaiting trial or have been convicted at the jail complex.
Officials touted the new plan, which would also include retail and commercial space, as smaller, safer, and fairer than Rikers, calling it a “good neighbor” in promotional materials.
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The new House of Detention would top out at 430 feet (roughly 40 stories), and would include community space on the groundfloor, and an underground parking garage.

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I wonder what kind of retail tenants this will have? Bob Barker's Jail and Correctional Supplies?
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probably a Duane Reade.
A Duane Reade is mandatory.
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http://www.brooklyneagle.com/article...anning-process

Brooklynites fume over lack of community input in jail planning process

By Liliana Bernal


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Brooklynites called on the city to halt the planning process of a 430-foot jail in Boerum Hill at a public hearing Thursday, citing lack of community input opportunities to the plan.
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One of the main concerns expressed at the meeting was that the proposed jail is intended to be nine times larger than the current 60,000-square-foot site.

The oversized jail in Brooklyn would house inmates with criminal cases in Staten Island, the only borough that is not expected to house a new jail. The Brooklyn jail’s capacity would increase from 810 beds to 1,510.

“This is completely unacceptable,” said state Sen. Velmanette Montgomery. “[It] contradicts the city’s borough-based jail system plan for smaller, safer, fairer jails.”

Local residents like Marci Rosa say the increased size of the jail in their neighborhood wasn’t something they expected when moving to the area.

“I clearly am okay with living across the street from the jail, I bought my house 19 years ago and I raised my three children there,” said Rosa, resident of the State Street Houses in Boerum Hill. “I did not sign up for something that is eight times the size of what it is now, especially with all of the development that is happening on every single corner in Downtown Brooklyn.”
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“Some of the community concerns that we’ve already heard and that we are committed to focusing on is parking,” said Dana Kaplan from the Mayor’s Office of Criminal Justice at the hearing. “Parking will be provided on site and underground for facility staff and services providers at the new facilities.”

The plan to close Rikers Island seeks to reduce the jail’s daily population to 7,000 people over the next five years with an ultimate goal of reducing the total number of inmates in the city to 5,000 by building jails across the boroughs.

“No alternatives have been considered and according to this process we must accept this density or Rikers stays open,” said Justin Pollok, a Downtown Brooklyn resident. “The cake is in the oven and the city is here to only ask you what color you would like the frosting, that’s the level of public engagement they are offering us. This cannot be the only solution.”

Public meetings on the drafts will also be held in Queens, Manhattan and the Bronx in September and October.

A rendering of the proposed jail. Rendering courtesy of the Cobble Hill Association

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Look at that overexaggerated rendering by the underhanded NIMBYs. It isn't anywhere near that bulky.
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^ Yeah, it's meant to alarm and scare.
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Absurd, they'd have you believe it has nearly as much sq ft'g as any building in the city. Scare tactics 101: make believe a Pentagon sized jail filled with dangerous criminals is planned to loom over your pricey cherished brownstone.
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https://www.brooklynpaper.com/prepar...brooklyn-jail/

CITY, CONTRACTORS GET READY TO BEGIN DEMOLITION AT BROOKLYN DETENTION COMPLEX

By Kirstyn Brendlen
February 21, 2022


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Construction workers are set to begin work tearing down the Brooklyn Detention Complex in the borough’s Downtown, which comes as the latest step in the the long-term plan to close Rikers Island.

North Star, the demolition company contracted to tear down the jail and build an interim secure entry point known as a “sally port,” received their notice to proceed and began mobilizing at the 275 Atlantic Ave. lot late last year, and are currently acquiring the necessary permits and planning out the work to be done before the deconstruction begins in earnest in the spring, city representatives said at Community Board 2’s Land Use Committee meeting on Feb. 16.
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The closure of the empty 11-story jail is part of then-Mayor de Blasio’s 2017 plan to close Rikers Island and replace it with four new “borough-based” jails in Brooklyn, Queens, Manhattan and the Bronx. Those new facilities, with a total capacity of just over 3,000 detainees — far less than the city’s current capacity of around 11,000 — are slated to open in 2027, as Rikers closes its doors.

The Brooklyn Detention Complex closed in late 2020, nearly 65 years after it opened. Earlier that year, the 815-bed facility held just over 300 male detainees, according to The City.

Currently, the new jail is slated to have space 886 beds in a 295-foot tall building. Per the Points of Agreement negotiated with the New York City Council in 2019, the building will include 30,000 square feet of “community space” and a number of therapeutic units. CB2 rejected the plan in the summer of 2019, but their vote is purely advisory.
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In December, the city hired Lucien Allen as the project’s community construction liaison, and has been heading out to residences and businesses in the neighborhood — primarily on Atlantic Avenue between Hoyt to Court streets, so far — letting them know that construction will begin soon and handing out his contact information, he said.

Allen will remain available to the community throughout the construction process, said Lauren Micir, an engineer at consulting firm AECOM who is working on the project. He will have an office nearby and will be available by phone and email to any Brooklynite with questions or concerns about construction.

North Star is expected to start constructing the temporary sally port and officer booth next month, Micir said, and will complete that work by June. The interim port, also called a “swing space,” will allow officers to safely bring detainees to and from the Kings County Criminal Court across the street. The current sally port is located at the jail, and detainees are brought to the courthouse via a tunnel beneath state street —but that tunnel will be inaccessible for the next few years as the new jail is built.


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$3B for this is out of control nutz.
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This has got to be the nicest looking prison ever.
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This has got to be the nicest looking prison ever.
Let’s hope it gets built this way.




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City Backtracks on Key Commitments for New 15-Story, 1,040-Bed Boerum Hill Jail, Locals Say


Oct 19, 2023
by Anna Bradley-Smith


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City agencies behind the design of the new 15-story, 1,040-bed Brooklyn Borough Jail in Boerum Hill have reneged on commitments made to the community during the land use review process, compromising the jail’s ability to integrate safely into the neighborhood, locals said at a community board meeting Wednesday night.

Specifically, underground parking for the planned 712,150-square-foot development has been cut from 292 spaces to 100 (which can only be used for authorized vehicles, not staff cars) and plans for a second tunnel between the courthouse and the jail have been dropped. Those factors would likely result in State and Smith streets being backed up with NYPD, corrections, and regular traffic, as well transfers of those in custody happening at street level, people said at the meeting.
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Concerns were also raised about the number of beds in the jail increasing from a planned 886 to 1,040, at the direction of the Adams administration, through the addition of mezzanine floors, ultimately decreasing the space prisoners have. There was concern that space had come through slashing the number of therapeutic beds for inmates with mental health issues, which must be on a single floor.
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A DDC rep told meeting-goers budget pressures were behind the parking cuts. He denied space-saving for the extra beds came from cutting therapeutic beds and said it was a policy decision, and said he had no knowledge of the previously planned second tunnel.

But not everyone was convinced. “This is a $3 billion building, when they talk about budget cuts, $3 billion is $3 million per bed,” said Justin Pollock, a rep from residential building 87 Smith Street. “It is the most expensive constructed building per square foot in the United States. So it’s incredible that they’re making budget cuts on this, when they’re spending this much money per bed to build a jail.”
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Architecture firm HOK is largely behind the design of the $3 billion facility and, along with city agencies, has held two public design sessions this year. The plans and renderings presented at Wednesday’s meeting were informed by those sessions and the “integrated and iterative process,” HOK Design Principal Kenneth Drucker said.

Renderings show the block-long jail appears similar to a tall luxury rental or condo development, contrasting with the more low-rise historic builds of surrounding Boerum Hill, Cobble Hill, and Brooklyn Heights (an issue that was brought up by local residents).
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”It’s really important for the entire team that this building is knitted to the fabric of Brooklyn,” Drucker said. He added the project was guided by principles of bringing natural light deep into the building, creating a civic asset, providing access to the outdoors for all users, and providing access to healthcare and education.

“And the idea is that we want to use a warm palette of materials, natural materials, the use of color and texture that are Brooklyn. And we want to normalize the space.”

HOK has worked on a range of justice system facilities across the country, including in patient treatment centers, court houses, and prisons. Drucker said a key reason the borough-based jails were being built to replace the troubled Rikers Island complex was to make it easier for families and the community to visit their loved ones, and the team was taking special care to make those spaces inviting.
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Meanwhile, the facade of the building and its massing has been informed by the articulation of the area’s brownstones and the architecture on existing civic buildings in Downtown Brooklyn, HOK design principal Aman Krishan said. She said the team had taken ideas from a traditional brownstone and “interpreted that through a modern language” resulting in paneling across the facade that reflects the “rhythm of brownstones” and some cornice detailing.

The building has a carve out at the center, dubbed the central reveal, that breaks up the massing of the large structure and allows natural light into recreation spaces. Krishan said the windows on that reveal were a nod to the double hung windows of brownstones, and the reveal itself was being done in a warm color seen across the surrounding neighborhoods.

“We’ve designed this facility for growth and change and think about this as an optimistic architectural intervention for the community and for its users,” she said. That includes having a horticulture space for those incarcerated at the jail, and a public art component that is being planned by the Department of Cultural Affairs and will be brought to the community at a later stage.
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Initial plans for a 20- to 40-story, 395-feet-tall building on the Atlantic Avenue site, and similar towers in the other three boroughs, were met with instant community backlash. Prior to the land use review process, which was completed in 2019, the city pulled back on those plans of 1,400-plus bed jail to one housing 886 people.

While the plan was adopted by the Adams administration, the mayor has since called it “unworkable” and added beds to each of the proposed jails. Even with the additional beds, the four jails will hold 3,300 prisoners, far less than the more than 6,000 capacity currently in the city.

Meanwhile, plans for the actual construction of the new Brooklyn jail have been marred with delays, and despite Rikers Island having a closing deadline of 2027, the new jail won’t be finished until 2029, the city says. Earlier this month, an application for a new-building permit was filed with the Department of Buildings for the 15-story, 339-foot-tall building with NYC DDC listed as the building’s owner.
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