Statements and Letters by Elected Officials and Community Boards
Comment Letter with Exhibits on Draft Environmental Impact Statement: Borough-Based Jail System: Manhattan Site, July 22, 2019
Brooklyn Borough President Eric Adams Unveils Recommendations on Borough-Based Jail Proposal, July 9, 2019
Recommendation Letter from Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer on the Borough-Based Jail System, July 5, 2019
Recommendation Letter from Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr on Borough-Based Jail System, July, 5 2019
Letter from Melinda Katz opposing Kew Gardens Jail, June 1, 2019
Community Board 1 Manhattan Resolution from the Land Use, Zoning and Economic Development Committee, May 28, 2019
Community Board 3 Manhattan Resolution on Borough-Based Jails, April 24, 2019
Queens Community Board 9 Resolution on Kew Gardens Jail, March 12, 2019
Community Board 9 Queens Resolution opposing the jail project for Queens. March 1 2019
Letter from Community Board 2 to NYC Dep’t of Corrections, October 17, 2018
Letter from Council Member Margaret Chin, October 1, 2018
Resolution by Community Board 1, September 25, 2018
Letter from Council Member Margaret Chin, September 24, 2018. The Mayor’s Response, September 27, 2018
Letter from Senators Brian Kavanagh and Velmanette Montgomery, and Assemblymember Jo Anne Simon, September 20, 2018
Resolution by Community Board 3, September 2018 (see p. 20)
Letter from Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer, August 27, 2018
The Mayor’s Plan
2005 to 2018
The Mayor’s 2015 Study Concerning Rikers Closure, October 27, 2015
The Mayor’s 2017 Study by Architects Concerning 80 Centre Street Site (November 1, 2017)
The Lippman Commission Report, 2017
The 2018 New York State Department of Corrections Report
August 2018 - Present
The Draft Scope of Work and Environmental Impact Assessment, August 15, 2018
The Mayor’s Office presentation Concerning 80 Centre Street, September 12, 2018 Community Meeting
The Meeting Brochures for the Borough-Based Jails in the Bronx, Brooklyn, and Manhattan
The Mayor’s Request For Proposal for Borough-Based Jails, October 2018
The Mayor’s Written Response to Community Questions from Meeting with Congressmember Nydia Velasquez, October 17, 2018
124-125 White Street Jail Shadow Studies
NYC Borough-Based Jail System Draft Environmental Impact Statement: Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5, March 22, 2019
124-125 White Street Jail - Overview of Project Construction Impact, May 6, 2019
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Ten-Year Capital Strategy Fiscal Years 2020-2029, The City of New York, Bill de Blasio, Mayor, April 2019
Additional Documents and Health Impacts
4,000 pages of emails containing de Blasio’s correspondence with outside consultants: Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4 | Part 5
Statement from Patricia Tsai, Lin Sing Association Assistant to the President
Statement from Jeanie Chin in Opposition to Borough-Based Jail in Chinatown/Manhattan
Statement from Grover Dale to Community Board 1
Before and After Images of 124-125 White Street Jail from Street and Rooftop Views
Before and After Images of 124-125 White Street Jail from 50 White Street Rooftop
Fair Share Prison Bed Capacity by Borough 2019
City Planning Commission Testimony from Valerie Imbruce on Borough-Based Jail System, Manhattan, July 18, 2019
Chinatown Air Quality Memo, July 12, 2019
Testimony for City Planning Commission Jail Hearing by Lin Sing Association Assistant to the President Patricia Tsai, July 10, 2019
Shadow Images by NUBC, July, 2019
NYU CSAAH Testimony on the Borough-Based Jails - Manhattan, June 27, 2019
Statement for the Borough President Hearing by Lin Sing Association Assistant to the President Patricia Tsai, June 11, 2019
Statement for Community Board 1 Full Board Meeting by Lin Sing Association Assistant to the President Patricia Tsai, May 28, 2019
Letter from AIA Architect Stephan Freid to Community Board 1 Opposing White Street Jail, May 10, 2019
Statement from Board of Directors Chatham Towers member Howard Huie to Community Board 1, May 1, 2019
Statement from Chatham Towers Board of Directors member Joe Mirabella, April 23, 2019
Community Board 1 Statement by Chatham Towers President Nancy Kong, April 23, 2019
Statement for Community Board 3 Hearing by Lin Sing Association Assistant to the President Patricia Tsai, April 16, 2019
Community Board Statement from AIA Architect Stephen Freid on Borough Based Jails, April 11, 2019
Statement from Joe Mirabella, April 8, 2019
Speech by Chatham Towers President Nancy Kong, April 8, 2019
Statement from Irving Lee to Community Board 1, April 8, 2019
Statement from Board of Directors Chatham Towers member Howard Huie to Community Board 1, April 8, 2019
Resident Letter Addressing Comments and Objections to DEIS, April 8, 2019
Statement from the NUBC Rally by Lin Sing Association Assistant to the President Patricia Tsai, March 25, 2019
The Chinatown Core Block Association Report on the Negative Impacts of Major Construction, February, 2019
Tribeca Trib Article - Jail Towers ‘Way Out of Scale’ Says Head of Commission to Close Rikers, January 20, 2019
CEQR Number 18DOC001Y Borough Based Jail System
Neighborhood Advisory Committee meeting minutes for all (4) boroughs as recorded by Perkins Eastman
Health Report Negative Impacts of Major Construction in Senior Communities
News
In Jail Tower Fight, Chinatown Banker Backs Possible Lawsuit Against City, The Tribeca Trib, July 28, 2019
Lawyer’s letter part of legal action against Huaying prison project, Sinovision, July 26, 2019
Support from National Treasure Bank Founder Sun Qicheng, World Journal, July 26, 2019
Presentation from Architect Stephan Freid, World Journal, July 26, 2019
Community voices concerns over planning violations, The China Press, July 26, 2019
Legal action taken to oppose prison plan, Epoch Times, July 26, 2019
Opposition to the Huaying Prison Reconstruction Project, Sinovision, July 25, 2019
Opposition to District Prison Plan, Sing Tao Daily, July 25, 2019
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Concerns that plans for prison building are unsafe, Epoch Times, June 17, 2019
CB1 votes ‘conditional opposition’ to prison plan, Epoch Times, May 14, 2019
Architect Stephan Freid points out regulation violations in building plan, Epoch Times, May 13, 2019
Concerns over foundation of prison building site, Epoch Times, May 7, 2019
Neighborhood angered over New York City's plans to for high-rise jail, ABC7 New York, September 28, 2018
Protests in opposition to Chinatown prison project, Epoch Times, September 13, 2018
From the Archives
Mayor Koch Draft Letter to Community Planning Board
Mayors Office of Operations on the White St. Jail, August 1, 1984
Statement by The City of New York Council President Carol Bellamy, July 12, 1984
Mayor Koch Press Release, May 4, 1984
Contract Food Service in the Jails Report from The City of New York Office of the Mayor, April 30, 1984
Letter from Commissioner Jaqueline McMickens, March 12, 1984
Letter from Mayor Koch to Mayor DeFino, March 8, 1984
Letter from Commissioner Jaqueline McMickens, February 27, 1984
Letter to Father Walter C. Murphy from The City of New York Office of the Mayor, January 4, 1984
Detention Facility Conceptual Design Final Report from Correctional Architects, December 1, 1983
Citizens’ Coalition for Lower Manhattan Sandwich Board Placards, Division Leap, 1983
Citizens’ Coalition for Lower Manhattan Protest Signs, Worthpoint, 1980s
Comments from Council President Carol Bellamy, November 17, 1982
Board of Estimate Transcript, December 2, 1982
Statement from Mayor Koch, December 2, 1982
Board of Estimate Transcript, November 18, 1982
Wrong Place for a New York City Jail, The New York Times, October 11, 1982
ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT STATEMENTS
Community Board Hearing Synopsis, October 4, 1982
Supplemental Draft Environmental Impact Statement, August, 1982
NYC Dept. of Correction Supplemental Application, August 5, 1982
ULURP application PROJECT number c-109, JJ-1 Part 2, August 5, 1982
500-Bed Detention Facility in Lower Manhattan Draft Environmental Impact Statement, April, 1982
Application for Selection and Acquisition or Lease of Site For Public Facility, January 26, 1982
ULURP application PROJECT number c-109, JJ-1 Part 1, January 26, 1982
SIGNED PETITION SAMPLES
Anti-jail petition from the Chinese community of the New York Metropolitan area, 1982
Anti-jail petition opposing proposal for a new detention facility on White Street, 1982
Anti-jail petition from the Citizens Coalition for Lower Manhattan, 1982