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August 9, 2008
Private School’s New Neighbor Is Too Close for Some Parents’ Comfort
NY Times
JENNIFER MEDINA
A federal probation office opening in the same building as St. Ann’s school in Brooklyn Heights is raising hackles:
In an interview this week, he said he would ask the building’s owner, Forest City Ratner, to allow modifications to the probation office plan. The company is a development partner in the new Midtown headquarters of The New York Times Company.Judge Dearie suggested that officials could minimize the interaction between students and probationers by getting the adults to use a back door; sending probationers directly to the 16th floor and using the ground-floor space only for administration; having probationers in the building only in the evenings, after school is out; or sending sex offenders to an old courthouse.
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NoLandGrab: Perhaps they could use the design notes from the Atlantic Center...or as the locals like to say, "How do you get from Circuit City to Party City?" Answer: "You can't get theyah from heyah."
Posted by amy at August 9, 2008 8:43 AM