{"id":3051,"date":"2008-01-11T07:03:14","date_gmt":"2008-01-11T15:03:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2008\/01\/the_perfect_place_for_middle_schoolers_to_learn_from_their_peers_bad_life_choices.html"},"modified":"2008-01-11T07:03:14","modified_gmt":"2008-01-11T15:03:14","slug":"the_perfect_pla","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/01\/the_perfect_pla.html","title":{"rendered":"The Perfect Place For Middle Schoolers To Learn From Their Peers&#8217; Bad Life Choices"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2008\/01\/no_condo.html\">no one wants to build condos there<\/a> we can <a href=\"http:\/\/www.brooklynpaper.com\/stories\/31\/2\/31_02houseofd.html\">at least scare straight surly middle schoolers<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>Developers responded so weakly to a city invitation for ideas for retail and residential use at the soon-to-reopen Brooklyn House of Detention that the city is now considering putting a middle school in the space.<\/p>\n<p>For months, the city has said it plans to reopen &#8212; and double the capacity of &#8212; the 11-story, 750-inmate Big House on Atlantic Avenue between Smith Street and Boerum Place.<\/p>\n<p>But last year, when the city solicited bids for ground-floor shops in the infamous holding pen, retailers showed only lukewarm interest.<\/p>\n<p>Besides the weak response from retailers, only one developer submitted a bid to build a residential tower adjacent to the soon-to-reopen jail.<\/p>\n<p>As a result, Corrections Commissioner Martin Horn told a group of local pols and community activists at a Jan. 2 meeting that he is considering housing a new middle school in the jail.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Location Scout: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/bigmap\/brooklyn\/boerumhill\/atlanticavenuejail\/index.htm\">Brooklyn House of Detention<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If no one wants to build condos there we can at least scare straight surly middle schoolers: Developers responded so weakly to a city invitation for ideas for retail and residential use at the soon-to-reopen Brooklyn House of Detention that the city is now considering putting a middle school in the space. For months, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brooklyn","category-what_will_they_think_of_next"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3051","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=3051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3051\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}