Saying No to House of D
Now that the city has given Boerum Hill, Cobble Hill and Brooklyn Heights the finger by re-opening and expanding the House of Detention, pols like David Yassky and William Thompson are fighting back with a lawsuit; you can throw your opinion into the ring as well. An online petition has been started here. Update: Gothamist…
Now that the city has given Boerum Hill, Cobble Hill and Brooklyn Heights the finger by re-opening and expanding the House of Detention, pols like David Yassky and William Thompson are fighting back with a lawsuit; you can throw your opinion into the ring as well. An online petition has been started here. Update: Gothamist reports that “there is no timetable” for the reopening and expansion.
For a year or so after I moved to Brooklyn (May, 2007) I would go to Atlantic Ave for a lot of restaurants in Boerum Hill and until I started seeing the threads on here that dealt with the HOD I never would have known I was always walking past it.
I don’t know if it’s “giving the finger” or not, but it sure ain’t a love poem to the neighborhood.
keep in mind that HOD primary function is for people that are awaiting trial or serving short sentences – some who can’t raise bail.
Not a place for those convicted and serving years – they go upstate.
But I do agree that spending gazillion $$ to expand will probably be a boondoggle.
This is my back yard, and I have no problem saying I’d rather it not re-open if at all possible. I don’t know how bad it is for property values, but anyone who says it’s good has to be some sort of stakeholder. I don’t see it.
Excellent point NH.
I am all for putting prisoners here – in fact stack them one on top of another for all I care BUT
I am adamantly opposed to spending another HALF A BILLION dollars on expanding the facility (after spending 70M only a few years ago – and then not using it) – there is no shortage of jail space currently so I fail to see why HALF A BILLION is needed. Not to mention that the geniuses didnt link the jail to the new courthouse so NO MATTER WHAT – prisoners still have to be bussed to Brooklyn Courtrooms.
Jail=sure BUT more $ for recently refurbished jail = NO F’ing WAY
“It’s a silly place for a jail”
It’s next to the courthouse and near a transit hub for lawyers/family to visit the inmates. Seems optimally located to me.
It just makes sense to me to have a jail near the courts. It made sense then, it makes sense now. The inmate buses on Court Street can’t be helping property values, can they?
This whole thing just smacks of NIMBY garbage. Do you guys remember when they wanted to do the retail sneakers and coffee stores on the ground level – LOL! Fools.
How about a petition saying Yassky, Joann Simon, et al are a bunch of sorry whiners and those of us that have lived many years in area with HOD don’t have a problem with it?