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Brooklyn Detention Complex, 275 Atlantic Avenue (Photo: Pamela Wong/BKLYNER) Brooklyn’s new jail is expected to have 885 beds in 2026, when new “borough-based” jails are up-and-running, city officials say. The current capacity is 815 beds. The capacity of Brooklyn’s new borough-based jail will be equal to new
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Photo: Zainab Iqbal/BKLYNERBOERUM HILL—As the process for the city’s plan to build borough-based jails to replace Rikers Island moves forward, Brooklynites weighed in this week on the proposed Brooklyn jail and the initiative as a whole. Ahead of Wednesday’s City Planning Commission hearing on the four
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BOERUM HILL – On Wednesday night, Brooklyn Community Board 2 [https://www1.nyc.gov/site/brooklyncb2/index.page] voted “no” on a land-use proposal which outlines plans for the jail to be expanded at 275 Atlantic Avenue. The vote was razor-thin with 17 board members voting no, 16 voting yes, two
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PARK SLOPE – The diverse group of Brooklynites packed into the auditorium of PS 133 Thursday night shared two opinions—they all wanted both Rikers Island and the Mayor’s borough-based jail plan shut down. Rendering of the expanded Brooklyn Detention Center, 275 Atlantic AvenueMayor Bill de Blasio committed in 2017
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PARK SLOPE – The diverse group of Brooklynites packed into the auditorium of PS 133 Thursday night shared two opinions—they all wanted both Rikers Island and the Mayor’s borough-based jail plan shut down. Rendering of the expanded Brooklyn Detention Center, 275 Atlantic AvenueMayor Bill de Blasio committed in 2017