Saturday, October 12, 2019

de Blasio offers city services as a bribe to get Kew Gardens tower prison approved.

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Forest Hills Patch

 In a private meeting this spring with Kew Gardens residents to discuss hotly-contested plans for a new jail in their neighborhood, Mayor Bill de Blasio promised they would be compensated for the jail's incursion, but he didn't provide specifics.


Now, a tentative list of those specifics has come to light. 

 Koslowitz has also pressed city officials to reduce the size of the Kew Gardens jail, which current plans say would be 27 stories tall and have a capacity of 1,150 detainees.

The proposed jail — one of four new jails the city wants to build to replace detention facilities on Rikers Island — is expected to be smaller than that by the time the City Council votes on the plan next week, according to Koslowitz's spokesperson, Michael Cohen.


Cohen pushed back on using the word "exchange" to describe the list of items City Hall is promising 
Koslowitz, who represents Kew Gardens, to secure her vote in favor of the jail plan.

He declined to specify other items being negotiated because he said the list hasn't yet been finalized.


Asked how he would describe the deal, he said, "I would describe it as the Mayor making good on his word that he understands that the community is sacrificing something here and his administration would like to do something for the community."


Koslowitz's vote is critical to the passage of the city's controversial jail plan, which calls for building a new lockup in every borough but Staten Island by 2026.


That's because members of the City Council, whose binding vote on the jails is scheduled for Oct. 17, tend to vote in lockstep with the council members whose districts are affected by a given land-use plan.


Koslowitz has already pushed de Blasio's office to nix plans for an infirmary in the Kew Gardens jail that would serve all four new detention centers.


In the private meeting earlier this year, de Blasio indicated he would go even further.


"When we ask a community to do something for the whole city, which is what we're doing here, then the community has a right to say, here are things that would help our community, including things we've been trying to get for a long time and haven't gotten," de Blasio said, according to a recording of the March 27 meeting reviewed by Patch.


"How can we say to the community, we're asking you to shoulder a burden but we want to do something back that's really going to make a difference?" de Blasio added.


Still, the jail proposal is intensely controversial among Koslowitz's constituents as well as advocates for No New Jails NYC, who say the city should close Rikers but not build any new jails.

Koslowitz's response? "Whether I supported it or not, that jail was happening."

 The elected in NYC do not represent the people anymore. What the mayor wants, the mayor gets it. Got it.

12 comments:

rikki said...

It still is true if black people committed crimes at the same rate as white people we would not need to build new jails. And 10 years out jail population would decline rapidly so we may have to close them for lack of criminals to incarcerate..... and lay off thousands of police officers.

Anonymous said...

It still is true if black people committed crimes at the same rate as white people...

But they vote Democratic so they are far more valuable to our nation's future than Trump supporters. Its so funny that when he said, in effect, "Kiss my butt" all the liberals went nuts but look benignly at all the filth spewed by 'gansta rap' and say nothing. Its 'woke' they tell us.

So in other words, they believe its perfectly fine for people to have freedom to say certain things because the color of their skin allows it while others are forbidden to say certain things because the color of their skin forbids it.

Anonymous said...

There is NOTHING Bozo could do to give back to Kew Gardens after forcing a 27 story prison on them. He will probably offer something like a new library or public garden or something- none of which could possibly offset a mega prison TOWER looming over the neighborhood. Not to mention all the extra traffic and undesirable visitors. The only way I see this being somewhat acceptable is if the size was greatly reduced- Iike at least by half. If it was a 10-12 story building that kind of blended into the background, maybe, but 27 is insane, it will overshadow the community. Koslowitz is true Queens Crap in action.

Anonymous said...

Just think Towering Inferno because prisoners like lighting fires.

rikki said...

Exactly Eric Garner had 30 arrests so why wasn't he man enough to put his hands behind his back and go quietly to jail????

Was trayvon on a college or Jail track? Hmmm they sealed his HS records the day after he was shot and his parents fought to keep it out of the zimmerman trial.

Mike Brown was never going to college He was so functionally illiterate he had to take multiple remedial courses just to squeak by getting his "diploma" from the 2nd worst school in St Louis. Mama had no proof no receipt no admission letter not even a Pell grant to actually attend a "college" but the media ran with that lie for years.

I can go on and on.........but you are so right

So in other words, they believe its perfectly fine for people to have freedom to say certain things because the color of their skin allows it while others are forbidden to say certain things because the color of their skin forbids it.

Anonymous said...

Developers in LIC are forcing mayor to close Rikers. They don’t want the scum loitering in their “new” neighborhood after being released at the Queens Boro bus stops /subway. Recall how blighted that area looked 10-15 years ago.

Anonymous said...

Good picture of DeDumbo. Looks mentally disturbed. You liberal jerks should really be proud of your king, destroyer of NYC.

Anonymous said...

Developers in LIC are forcing mayor to close Rikers.

Not to mention the future condo prices on Rikers Island, now ferry service is coming for the "elite".

Anonymous said...

Yet another reason to change my
Party from Dem to Republican

Anonymous said...

This is disgusting. A prisoner escaped from the custody of DOC yesterday in Kew Gardens and Archbishop Molloy HS went on lock down. Kozlowitz is a total sellout and should be locked in the new jail when it is built.

Anonymous said...

This guy will do and promise anything to his developer friends and supporters. He's not listening, and why should he? NYC loves him and will reelect him a third time if he runs,(which he will)

Anonymous said...

>NYC loves him and will reelect him a third time if he runs,(which he will)

He's term limited, so he can't, and if he did he wouldn't win; no one likes him besides his cronies and the people in the few rich neighborhoods he makes sure are taken care of.