@nubcnyc

Thankful for the coverage on @cheddar with host Baker , on the subject of Chinatown's pushback on the mega-jail project. #adaptivereuse makes more sense, and the money saved can go to affordable housing. Why must we drag the bad ideas of the #deblasio administration into the new administration. We're all in agreement that the management of Riker's should not be transferred to communities. The FEDERAL monitor even admonished NYC for ignoring the recommendations made over the last two years. The BETTER solution : Smaller incarceration footprint, adaptively reuse the TWO Chinatown jails (one renovated in 1983, the other also completed in 1983) . These are essentially new buildings that were rotting from the inside as a result of demolition by neglect, and that can be remedied by rehabilitating from the inside out. Do It Now.