Brooklyn Detention Complex
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a4/Brooklyn_Detention_Complex%2C_Sept_2017.jpg/220px-Brooklyn_Detention_Complex%2C_Sept_2017.jpg)
The Brooklyn Detention Complex (originally the Brooklyn House of Detention) was a jail facility located at 275 Atlantic Avenue, in Brooklyn. At full capacity, it was able to house 815 male prisoners in its single cells.[1] Most of the population was made up of detainees undergoing the intake process or awaiting trial in Kings or Richmond County.[1]
Built in the 1950s, the jail closed in 2003 due to a declining inmate population. It reopened in 2012 after renovations with 544 staff.[2]
In 2017, New York City committed to closing the jails on Rikers Island and creating a network of modern borough-based jails instead. The Brooklyn Detention Center was designated as one of the jails that would be used to replace Rikers.[3] In August 2018, the city released a Draft Scope of Work outlining their plan for the new jail, which would tear down the existing 162,000 sq ft. facility and replace it with a building eight times as large (1.4 million sq ft.) and up to 40 stories tall.[4]
In March 2024, plans for the new jail gained traction with the demolition of the old structure.
![](http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/3/3e/Demolition_Brooklyn_Detention.jpg/220px-Demolition_Brooklyn_Detention.jpg)
References
- ^ a b "Brooklyn Detention Complex". Correction Officers’ Benevolent Association, Inc.
- ^ Robbins, Liz (3 February 2012). "Reopening of Brooklyn House of Detention Worries Neighbors". The New York Times.
- ^ Rikers. "NYC Borough-Based Jails - Rikers". Rikers. Retrieved 2018-10-04.
- ^ "New York City Borough-Based Jail System Draft Scope of Work to Prepare a Draft Environmental Impact Statement" (PDF). p. 7. Retrieved 29 November 2022.
- v
- t
- e
- Cadman Plaza
- Columbus Park
- Walt Whitman Park
- Brooklyn Friends School
- Brooklyn Law School
- Brooklyn Frontiers High School
- Friends Meetinghouse and School
- George Westinghouse Career and Technical Education High School
- German School Brooklyn
- LIU Brooklyn
- New York City College of Technology
- New York University Tandon School of Engineering
- St. Joseph High School
- Baptist Temple
- Brooklyn Tabernacle
- Cathedral Basilica of St. James
- Friends Meetinghouse and School
- St. Nicholas Antiochian Orthodox Cathedral
Performance venues | |
---|---|
Restaurants | |
Museums |
- 11 Hoyt
- 60 Water Street
- 75 Livingston Street
- 81 Willoughby Street
- 110 Livingston Street
- 370 Jay Street
- 388 Bridge Street
- The Alloy Block
- AVA DoBro
- BellTel Lofts
- Brooklyn Commons
- The Brooklyn Tower
- Brooklyner
- City Point
- The Hub
- Montague–Court Building
- Offerman Building
- Old Brooklyn Fire Headquarters
- Smith & Gray Company Building
- Wunsch Building
Subway stations | |
---|---|
Streets |
|
- Brooklyn Borough Hall
- Brooklyn Detention Complex
- Brooklyn Municipal Building
- Federal Building and Post Office
- New York City Emergency Management
- New York City Transit Authority
- Theodore Roosevelt United States Courthouse
40°41′20″N 73°59′22″W / 40.6890°N 73.9895°W / 40.6890; -73.9895
![]() | This article about a building or structure in Brooklyn is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it. |
- v
- t
- e