Within walking distance from Barney’s and Trader Joe’s, the Brooklyn House of Detention is preparing for 759 new tenants. Not exactly the modern picture of bohemian paradise Brooklyn likes to portray. But this is also the reality of the prison industrial complex in which we live, The Times reports: Read More
Further sharpening contrasts with the Bloomberg administration, Comptroller Bill Thompson has blocked a $31.3 million city design contract for the Brooklyn House of Detention, which the mayor is seeking to reopen and expand.
In a letter to the commissioner of the Department of Design and Construction, Mr. Thompson’s office said it was blocking the Read More
Superintern Bharat Ayyar has a report from a protest against reopening the Brooklyn House of Detention, where a hearty collection of elected officials pointed out that "people live here now."
He also sent in this dispatch on a delicate situation that unfolded there:
There was an unexpected guest at this afternoon’s rally to stop Read More
Earlier this afternoon, a diverse cast of politicians gathered in front of the Brooklyn House of Detention on Atlantic Avenue to protest the Bloomberg administration’s plan to reopen and expand the downtown jail. (It was the Bloomberg administration that closed it back in 2003, due to high costs).
Councilman and Read More
An addendum to our article yesterday about the lack of willingness to sandwich the Brooklyn House of Detention with condos: The closed jail, which the city is intent on doubling in size and reopening, is likely to have a retail component, should the city find anyone willing to set up shop in its base. Read More
