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Cuomo Details How He’d Ditch $16 Billion Borough Jail Project and Rebuild Rikers Instead

  An architect’s renderings of “humane” new detention facilities for the island intrigued a Chinatown audience opposed to a planned new jail tower in their neighborhood.  This article originally appeared in The City. By Claudia Irizarry Aponte Bronx Voice October 16, 2025   Follow @x NEW YORK - Standing near the Chinatown site of a proposed 16-story new detention center, former Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Wednesday detailed his proposal to scrap a planned shutdown of the Rikers Island jail complex if he is elected mayor. “My plan is to rebuild Rikers,” said Cuomo at the New York Chinese Community Center on Mott Street. “The island is fine. The island did nothing wrong.” By law, Rikers must stop functioning as an incarceration site by 2027. Four borough jails with capacity for about more than 4,100 people are either under construction or soon scheduled to be near courthouses in Brooklyn, Manhattan, Queens and The Bronx, under a long-in-the works project whose price tag has ...
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