Don't Get Your Pants In a Twist Over Brooklyn House of Detention, Says Eagle

While the Brooklyn Paper reports that the city "brushed aside widespread opposition to its plan to reopen and double the size" of the Brooklyn House of Detention by hiring architects to start the process, Dennis Holt, writing for the Brooklyn Eagle recommends not getting all worked up.

"The Department of Correction announced months ago that it would take this action," he writes. What actually matters is whether or not the city chooses to use the Uniform Land Use Review Process, he says.

One the one hand, there could be a year of process leading to a lawsuit. On the other hand, there could just be a lawsuit. More here.

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