{"id":1013,"date":"2006-04-26T07:26:56","date_gmt":"2006-04-26T15:26:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/04\/did_you_hear_what_they_want_to_do_with_blackwells_island.html"},"modified":"2006-04-26T07:26:56","modified_gmt":"2006-04-26T15:26:56","slug":"did_you_hear_wh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/04\/did_you_hear_wh.html","title":{"rendered":"Did You Hear What They Want To Do With Blackwell’s Island?"},"content":{"rendered":"

Department of Corrections officials announced that they identified a site for a new jail in the Bronx. They just don’t want to say where<\/a>:<\/p>\n

A South Bronx industrial lot is to become the site for the city’s new $375 million jail, officials said yesterday.<\/p>\n

John Antonelli, a deputy commissioner of the Department of Correction, told the City Council that the facility would have space for 2,000 inmates and be just two miles away from the courthouse.<\/p>\n

“We have identified a site in the Oak Point section that is in reasonable proximity to the courts, appropriately zoned and large enough to accommodate a 2,000-bed facility,” Antonelli testified before the council’s Fire & Criminal Justice Committee.<\/p>\n

The proposed site is in an area with garbage dumps, a sewage-treatment facility and power plants.<\/p>\n

The site’s prior owners were investigated for possible ties to reputed crime boss John Gotti and declared bankruptcy, leaving behind $60 million in unpaid taxes.<\/p>\n

“I would anticipate opposition to this, but I think that your agency is going to have to come forth with a more detailed plan than what we have today,” warned Councilman James Vacca (D-Bronx).<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Where, you say, is the “Oak Point” section of the Bronx? It’s not in the Encyclopedia of New York City<\/em>? Neither Lloyd Ultan nor John McNamara (see here<\/a>) has written the definitive history of the neighborhood? Maybe that’s because Corrections officials are really talking about Hunts Point, but then we would have known where they were talking about . . .<\/p>\n

Next thing you know, they’ll be putting a jail in the Winfield<\/a> section of Queens, and over in Vandewater’s Heights<\/a> in Manhattan, one within walking distance of Punkiesberg<\/a> (uh, scratch that example<\/a>!), or maybe one in Kreischerville<\/a>.<\/p>\n

For extra credit<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Department of Corrections officials announced that they identified a site for a new jail in the Bronx. They just don’t want to say where: A South Bronx industrial lot is to become the site for the city’s new $375 million jail, officials said yesterday. John Antonelli, a deputy commissioner of the Department of Correction, told […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the_bronx","category-there_goes_the_neighborhood"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}