NEW YORK | Jail Tower (125 White St) | 295 FT | FLOORS

[chris08876]

Credit: https://tribecacitizen.com/2024/09/24/the-jails-on-white-and-centre-are-just-about-gone/

[NYguy]

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[NYguy]

https://ny1.com/nyc/all-boroughs/politics/2025/01/18/rikers-manhattan-jail-contract

[Busy Bee]

I can't believe that ugly shitbox facing Walker is actually staying.

[NYguy]

https://www.curbed.com/article/manhattan-detention-center-jail-corporate-glass-steel.html

Manhattan’s Future Jail Looks a Lot Like a Corporate HQ





1/24/2025
By Justin Davidson

It’s a staple of comedy and complaints that an office can feel like a jail. So why not try a jail that feels like an office? The construction contractor Tutor Perini’s new video rendering shows the future Manhattan Detention Center, which will be built on the site of its predecessor near Chinatown, as a staunchly generic high-rise, its function undetectable to passers-by. It’s a facility meant to isolate people, and also to blend in.

The preliminary video, though light on detail or a sense of the building’s height or bulk, shows a tower said to be about 300 feet high at 124-125 White Street with all the usual corporate appurtenances. Glass walls line the sidewalk; a landscaped plaza is lit from the cantilevered structure above; a grid of generous vertical windows is framed in handsome steel (or maybe that’s Disney-ish terra-cotta); a blond-wood open lobby leads to a reception desk unprotected by bulletproof glass. New York has plenty of other buildings that look more obviously prisonlike than this.

[NYguy]

https://www.6sqft.com/first-look-at-chinatowns-new-16-story-jail/

[twister244]

Originally Posted by NYguy

First, I can't believe I'm just discovering this project. Secondly.... This can't seriously be an interior photo from the lobby of a detention center?..... Really?

[Busy Bee]

I'm more distracted by the dog sniffing that guys balls.

[NYguy]

Originally Posted by twister244

First, I can't believe I'm just discovering this project. Secondly.... This can't seriously be an interior photo from the lobby of a detention center?..... Really?

It’s gonna be comparable to the new Brooklyn Jail…

[jackster99]

Credit where credit is due, both were well designed to look like anything but a jail. They look like high end condos.

[NYguy]

Originally Posted by jackster99

Credit where credit is due, both were well designed to look like anything but a jail. They look like high end condos.

I have to admit, they are pleasant looking. Not that the NIMBYs care.

[mrnyc]

$16B —


https://www.instagram.com/reel/DHD-FEeg83k/?igsh=MXE0enB0bmRmbnA1MA==

[NYguy]

https://www.ourtownny.com/news/chinatown...g-soon-will-continue-for-years-MB5524394

Chinatown Jail Construction Starting Soon, Will Continue for Years
The controversial result of the De Blasio-era Borough Based Jail Plan is opposed by nearly all nearby residents, and their City Council Member Christopher Marte.
Still, it promises to be the most comfortable and stylish jail Manhattan has ever seen.





Brian Berger
01 Feb 2026

To make an omelette, the hoary apothegm goes, you have to break few eggs. And so it will be with the Chinatown Jail, whose construction will rise from what is presently an ice-crusted hole on White Street between Centre and Baxter Streets until, years later, it’s among the most beautiful high rise jails in the world—maybe the most beautiful. How many years? Well, that’s a most interesting question.

The answer, at present, is 2032, at a projected cost of around $3.9 billion. To accomplish this feat in the city where the Empire State Building was built in just over 13 1/2 months, the contractor, Tutor Perini, said it will work from 6 a.m. to midnight, Monday through Friday, and 7 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Saturdays. Construction will start “soon.”