Downtown Brooklyn Jail reopens Feb '12

won't help...

Great paying jobs. Ppl wanna live near work. Low interest rates.

Buy now or be priced out forever.

What’s wrong with having a prison in your neighborhood? It seems to me like it would make it a pretty crime-free area, don’t you think?

You think a lot of crackheads and pimps and hookers and thieves are going to be hanging around in front of a freaking prison? Nope, they ain’t coming anywhere near it!

What’s wrong with these people? All the criminals are locked up behind the walls, and if a couple of them do break out what do you think they’re going to do, hang around? Check real-estate trends? No way, they’re freaking gone!

That’s the whole idea of breaking out of prison: to get as far away as you possibly can.

- George Carlin

most incarcerated criminals come from fine, honest, hardworking families; and have friends who are cut of similar cloth to their families---given this, the lines of visitors to this prison will cause an uptick in quality of people on the streets surrounding--sorta like happens when a methadone clinic storfront opens on a given block

buy now or be priced out forever

i would love to see the prices fluctuate as the inmates start to escape as they are being brought-in/taken-out of the facility.

the visitors will definitely assist in getting additional..... bail bonds places to open and/or maybe a 99 cent pizza slice place.

Open a B&B close by.

MATHUS - not as simple as Carlin suggests. Stand a block away from the Bernard K. Kerick complex in lower Manhattan and see how much shady activity takes place. Rolex Rolex?!

You mean Canal Street?

Seriously, Center Street is a courthouse as well as a jail and the former is the reason for local industry. Think about it.

Many jails are connected to court houses. Detention centers even more so.
But a court house or federal, state or city agencies aren't why you have local illegal "industries".

Hey, the old Women's Detention Center in the Village was pretty cool. Remember the guys yelling up from the street to their detained sweeties? I'm not saying that its demise lowered prices in the neighborhood, but it eliminated a bit a diversity in an area that claims to value such stuff.

More nonsense and hyperbole from the uninformed. The Brooklyn House of Detention (as it was known as before the closing) is a JAIL, not a prison. It houses people accused of crimes who cannot make bail. Occasionally it houses criminals convicted of misdemeanors (crimes with sentences of a year or less). The neighborhood is neither better nor worse because it's going to re-open. The only people concerned are the losers from Ohio (e.g. NOT Windsor Terrace) who were not around when it was open before. It's a non-issue. Most people milling around are Atlantic Avenue are the poor relatives looking for a bail bondsman.

I just don't understand why the NIMBYs never got upset about the criminal court at 120 Schermerhorn Street? There have been criminals passing through that building for YEARS. Did the real estate values drop around that building? NOPE!

"Seriously, Center Street is a courthouse as well as a jail and the former is the reason for local industry. Think about it."

Difference is, I don't remember downtown brooklyn having Wall Street and a bunch of big buck banks and law firms there to offset...