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https://www.bxtimes.com/new-bronx-jail/
Community leaders press for details on the new Bronx jail — and investment in keeping people out
By Emily Swanson
March 19, 2026
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Discussion around the 1,040-capacity Bronx jail is heating up as design plans for the forthcoming South Bronx facility at are close to finalized.
The four borough-based jails replacing Rikers Island remains years from completion, but in the meantime, representatives for the Bronx project from the NYC Department of Design and Construction, Mayor’s Office of Criminal Justice, Department of Correction, Transformative Reform Group and Urbahn Architects have held several public sessions, most recently on March 10 at SoBro Social and an online comment period.
Community input has already shaped several factors in the exterior and interior of the new jail, according to the public presentation. For instance, in response to feedback, the team included a breastfeeding room for visiting families, a children’s play area, natural light within cells and calming colors and materials, as well as public seating and landscaping outside.
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But when representatives met with Community Board 1 on March 17, District Manager Anthony Jordan pressed for specifics that were not yet available regarding staffing ratios, workforce programming for those in custody and other topics.
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‘A small city’
The new facility at East 141st Street and Bruckner Blvd., will indeed cost $2.9 billion — equal to the Brooklyn jail budget but less than that of Manhattan Chinatown, $3.7 billion; and Queens, $3.9 billion; according to a Jan. 2026 Department of Corrections report.
But the borough-based jails — intended to bring people in custody closer to their neighborhoods, family, friends, attorneys and courthouses — stand no chance of being completed by 2027, the legally mandated deadline to close the Rikers Island jail complex, which has been plagued by suicides and deaths in custody, understaffing, violence and lawsuits.
Though the Bronx jail is not expected to open until 2031, early construction work has now begun and renderings have been released showing the look and feel of the interior cells, common areas, public areas and streetscape.
In public presentations, the design team has said it aims for the jail to complement its surroundings and be a community asset, not a detriment.
At the March 10 public session, lead architect Larry Gutterman said the new jail is set to become “a great example of public architecture in the city of New York.”
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Plans for the facility include educational and vocational programs, therapeutic services, 120 below-ground parking spaces for employees and 40,000 square feet of community and retail space, mainly on Southern Blvd., and East 141st Street.
The resulting project will be like “a small city,” Gutterman said in the session. “We believe that we’ve designed a building that relates well to the surrounding neighborhood.”
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