As ‘Close Rikers’ grows ever more not possible, – Latest News
In its newest report, even the Lippman Commission admits the Rikers Island jail advanced can’t close by 2027, however the reality-denying City Council refuses to confess it.
The first of the alternative jails gained’t end earlier than 2029 (if ever), and all 4 collectively couldn’t remotely deal with the present Rikers population of 7,000-plus inmates.
The solely sane reply is to only construct new jails on Rikers Island, and switch inmates as sensible, writes The Post Editorial Board. Leonardo Munoz
The de Blasio period law requiring City Hall to close the 15,000-bed jail advanced in two years has run head-on into neighborhood opposition to the borough-based jails, plus the countless delays which are routine in any giant New York authorities project.
Indeed, as we famous in January, “with every contract City Hall signs for new jails to replace Rikers, the completion date gets further and further away.”
NYC Mayor Eric Adams offers a speech at a ribbon chopping ceremony on March 13. Paul Martinka
The $3.8 million Chinatown jail is now supposedly slated to finish in 2032, the Bronx and Queens ones in 2031 and the Brooklyn facility in 2029.
Yet Council Speaker Adrienne Adams refuses to even amend the law to confess these realities, as Mayor Eric Adams requests.
How can anybody take her run for mayor critically?
New York City Council Speaker Adrienne Adams delivers the 2025 State of the City tackle at Jazz at Lincoln Center on March 4. James Keivom
Or the remainder of the 2025 Democratic mayoral pack; they’re all simply as delusional.
The solely sane reply is to only construct new jails on Rikers Island, and switch inmates as sensible.
The insistence on sticking with the deadline to close Rikers years earlier than town has anyplace else to put 7,000 harmful people is the proper signal of simply how deranged it’s a must to be to stay a New York City progressive.
