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Beep wants smaller borough jail
GABLES...
public records show.
The firm is also behind a
new residential building at 56
North 9th St.
David Salamon of Salamon
Engineering Group is the applicant
of record. They have
worked on the Williamsburg
Hotel at 96 Wythe Street in
Williamsburg and a colorful
“boutique” hotel located at
1107 Dekalb Avenue in Bed
Stuy, as well as multiple projects
in Manhattan.
The rendering is by Albo
Liberis , according to the tipster,
a firm that designed the
retro-futuristic William Vale
Hotel at 55 Wythe Ave. in Williamsburg.
The former school was last
occupied by the Williamsburg
Northside School Infant and
Toddler Center. It was designed
by architect P.J. Berlenbach
and is part of a collection
of three buildings that
all at one point were owned by
the Roman Catholic Church
of the Annunciation.
P.J. Berlenbach also designed
the former convent
next door at 64 Havemeyer,
which was built in 1889 and
converted to co-ops a century
later in in 1989. The church
across the street at 65 Havemeyer
was built in 1870 and
designed by F.J. Berlenbach
Jr. (the father of P.J. Berlenbach),
according to the AIA
Guide.
The cluster of three Victorian
red-brick buildings mark
the end point of the yearly
Giglio lift parades along
Havemeyer Street, part of
the 103-year-old Giglio festival,
which runs July 10-21
this year.
The church reopened in
March after a year-long renovation
.
“Surprised the church is allowing
these alterations when
it just finished an expensive
renovation of its own building,”
the tipster added.
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of our sister publications.
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By Congresswoman
Carolyn B. Maloney
for Brooklyn Paper
Last week, we lost an incredible
New Yorker – an
American hero – NYPD Detective
Luis Alvarez. I vowed
that we would finish his last
mission – to take care of the
9/11 community.
On July 11, the House is
scheduled to finally vote to
fully fund and make permanent
the September 11th Victim
Compensation Fund to
take care of every first responder,
construction worker,
volunteer, and survivor who
is now sick and the spouses
left alone and the children left
without parents because of
illnesses caused by 9/11.
In honor of NYPD Detective
James Zadroga, the first
person to die from 9/11 illness;
FDNY Firefighter Ray
Pfeifer and NYPD Detetive
Luis Alvarez, who dedicated
their last breaths to fighting
for the 9/11 community; and
for all the heroes who are
still dealing with the effects
of 9/11 each and every day,
we will get this done and
send this bill to the president’s
desk.
We have a double moral
obligation to these heroic men
and women. Not only were
they there for us in one of our
nation’s darkest hours, but
our government told all those
who worked on the pile and
lived, worked, and went to
school near Ground Zero that
the air was safe to breathe,
and water was safe to drink
when it wasn’t. They are sick
because of us.
Last month, Congress
heard from Anesta St. Rose
Henry as she testified in front
of the House Committee on
the Judiciary, sitting in front
of two of her children that
she is now raising alone. She
lost her husband Candidus
Henry less than a month earlier
to glioblastoma, a rare
brain cancer, connected to
his time working on the pile
at Ground Zero.
She told us and the American
people about Candidus,
and the hole he left behind –
a hole only made larger by
the fact that, because her husband
died in May instead of
two years ago, she and her
family will not receive a full
award from the September
11th Victim Compensation
Fund (VCF) because the fund
is currently facing a budget
shortfall.
The Special Master of the
Fund announced in February
that, because of lack of
funding, it was forced to start
cutting awards by 50 to 70
percent to extend the fund’s
life. The Henrys are one of
the families devastated by
this reduction.
But we will fix that by
passing this bill.
Not only does the Never
Forget the Heroes fully fund
and make permanent the VCF
for the future, but it also directs
the Special Master to
revisit all the reduced awards
paid out to the 9/11 community
because of the budget
shortfall and make these families
whole.
After 9/11, we vowed to
Never Forget and with that,
we made a commitment to
make sure every 9/11 first
responder and survivor, and
their families, never have to
go without the support they
need or deserve. It is the very
least we can do as a grateful
nation.
Congresswoman Maloney
represents New York’s
12th Congressional District
spanning parts of Queens
and Manhattan.
OP-ED
By Kevin Duggan
Brooklyn Paper
The city should expand the
Brooklyn House of Detention
jail facility in Boerum Hill
— but not to the extent that
Mayor Bill de Blasio is requesting
under a current rezoning
proposal, according
to Borough President Eric
Adams.
The Beep on Wednesday
issued a purely advisory recommendation
for a facility
that would replace the Atlantic
Avenue holding facility, asking
that the Mayor’s Office
for Criminal Justice and the
Department of Corrections reduce
the proposed building’s
height from 395 feet to 235
feet, and from 1,437 beds to
900 beds. The jail currently
houses 815 beds and is 170
feet tall at 11 stories.
As borough president, Adam’s
was asked to weigh in
on the proposed detention
center as part of a roughly
yearlong public-review process.
The new jail is an as-
Board 2 on June 12 demanding
the building’s proposed size
and population be reduced,
although the beep didn’t go
quite as for as the civic group,
which requested a more modest
875 bed cap.
The borough president
rejected the city’s scheme to
reserve ground floor space
at the new prison for commercial
retail businesses,
saying those units should
be reserved exclusively for
community use.
He did side with the city
over community board members
on the issue of building
a Staten Island jail — an idea
that city officials have repeatedly
shot down, arguing that
there aren’t enough jailed people
from The Rock to justify
a separate facility.
His recommendation also
does not include the civic panel’s
demand for a new facility
to train corrections officers,
nor did he advise funneling
some of the funds toward
affordable housing, as community
members had requested.
He proposed that the city
form an advisory group of local
community and business
groups, politicians, and other
stakeholders that would meet
regularly with officials to give
their input on the building’s
design and operations.
The Beep also advised
connecting the criminal justice
arms of city government
with hospitals and psychiatric
institutions for inmates with
substance misuse and mental
health issues, which the beep
said could be done with the
city’s Health + Hospital system
as well as Governor Andrew
Cuomo’s health initiative
“Vital Brooklyn.”
His recommendation follows
a recently announced decision
by the Mayor’s criminal
justice division to reduce
their target to 1,150 beds per
site due to recently-passed
statewide bail reform, according
to spokeswoman
Alacia Lauer.
pect of de Blasio’s $8.7 billion
scheme to close down New
York City’s personal brand of
hell on earth — Rikers Island
— by 2026, and relocate inmates
to four new facilities
located in every borough except
Staten Island.
The borough president
applauded the mayor’s borough
based jail plan, which
will keep inmates closer to
court and nearer to home, but
said any scheme to improve
the circumstance of prisoners
must accommodate the needs
of local residents.
“We have listened closely
to all stakeholders throughout
this process, and have put forward
a recommendation that
balances the needs of the community
with the imperative
of making our criminal justice
system more humane for
all, something all sides have
agreed is critical,” he said in
a statement.
Adam’s recommendation
echoed a symbolic resolution
passed by Community
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