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You can't build high rises with the LGA runway just yards away. Rikers is not an attractive residential location anyway not only because of the airplane noise but because its hard to get to.
This deBlasio fool really is about decentralizing Rikers. Prisoner advocacy groups have convinced him that Rikers was too big, too unfriendly and too bad for the prisoners.
On the border of Kew Gardens- Kew Gardens Hills area. It would sit in between Queens Blvd and the Van Wyck Expressway.
Entrance to the Grand Central Parkway, LIE and Whitestone Expressway are nearby too.
Not against this large jail being in Queens as long as it's isolated well enough from surrounding residential communities. The current, smaller jail has actually been put out of use (or barely for that matter) under the Bloomberg administration due to budget cuts and declining inmate population.
It would end up getting demolished. The larger jail they want to build is another symptom of the issues afflicting our community slowly, but surely if not put in check. I'm noticing an increase in homeless/mentally ill population in our neighborhood hanging around laundromats and bodegas. One person seems to have chosen a Q10 bus stop on Lefferts as his bathroom stall (piles of poo). I can appreciate the importance of such facilities and respect that the main goal is to make these new jails more humane and modern -- but to put a jail of that magnitude between 2+ very residential communities poses a safety risk to the schools one block away from the site and those living across the street from it.
There's areas like Wilets Point or around the warehouses of Maspeth where they could have put the jail.
Do not pit neighborhoods against neighborhoods. This is what they want. To divide us. This complex is bad for any neighborhood. All of Queens must provide a united front against our Idiot Mayor and these paid shills.
Put the jails in the communities that produce the criminals. Finito.
Exactly. deBlasio goes on about making it convenient for the families to visit the prisoners. Well, it doesn't get more convenient than putting it right where they're from.
I don't get the concern. Brooklyn House of Detention has been in Downtown Brooklyn for decades. If anything, the surrounding neighborhood got better!
Because you aren’t aware of the size and scope of the new buildings. These jails will be HIGH RISES, some of the tallest buildings around and supposedly they will be for a smaller jail population. What happens of the population doesn’t decrease?
Because you aren’t aware of the size and scope of the new buildings. These jails will be HIGH RISES, some of the tallest buildings around and supposedly they will be for a smaller jail population. What happens of the population doesn’t decrease?
Who cares, what do you think is going to happen, constant jail break-outs? Lol.
I'll tell you what living near sucks - a boy's group home. I'll live next to a jail before a group home.
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