The city is pursuing a unique path to getting approval for the four new jails that will take over housing detainees and inmates when Rikers Island closes: There is one environmental review, and one Uniform Land-Use Review Procedure, for the four very disparate sites.
That could mean that the voices of each individual neighborhood are less audible than they would be if the city proceeded jail by jail. However, the city has created four Neighborhood Advisory Councils to create a forum for getting community input into the plans for each facility.
Below are the names associated with each NAC, according to minutes the de Blasio administration has posted here. The NACs in the Bronx and Queens have held two meetings to date, while the Brooklyn NAC has met three times and, at press time, the first Manhattan meeting was imminent.
City records are not crystal clear on whether people attending these meetings are NAC members or non-members there to observer or speaker. And since there had been no Manhattan meeting by press time, only organizational affiliations—supplied by the Mayor’s Office of Criminal Justice Services—are provided.
Name | Organization | Borough NAC |
Carmen Pineiro | The Bronx Defenders | Bronx |
Clarisa Alayeto | Community Board #1 | Bronx |
Diana Ayala | Councilwoman | Bronx |
Diana Rodriguez | Eastside Settlement House | Bronx |
Hector Torres | Save Our Streets | Bronx |
John Johnson | Community Board #1 | Bronx |
Mili Bonilla | Councilwoman Ayala’s Office | Bronx |
Princella Jamerson | Bronx Community Board #1 | Bronx |
Ralph Acevedo | Bronx Community Board #2 | Bronx |
Ramona Ferreyra | Community Member | Bronx |
Rev. Ray Rivera | Latino Pastoral Action Center, | Bronx |
Rev. Wendy Calderon-Payne | BronxConnect | Bronx |
(No name recorded) | Sanctuary Church | Bronx |
Tara Brown | BronxConnect | Bronx |
Alexis Sfikas | Assemblywoman Simon’s Office | Brooklyn |
Amy Breedlove | Cobble Hill Association | Brooklyn |
Belinda Cape | Downtown Brooklyn Partnership | Brooklyn |
Brandon Holmes | Just Leadership | Brooklyn |
Brian Crow | New York City Council Legislative Division | Brooklyn |
Brian Kavanagh | State Senator | Brooklyn |
Brian Paul | NYC Council Land Use | Brooklyn |
Caroline Peri | Downtown Brooklyn Partnership | Brooklyn |
Claudia Massa | Downtown Brooklyn Concerned Neighbors | Brooklyn |
Dan Wiley | Congresswoman Nydia Velazquez’s Office | Brooklyn |
Danielle Zuchnerman | State Senator Kavanagh’s Office | Brooklyn |
Elizabeth Adams | Councilmember Levin’s Office | Brooklyn |
Evan Wagowski | 265 State Street | Brooklyn |
Frank Greene | RGA | Brooklyn |
Glomani Bravo-Lopez | Councilman Levin’s Office | Brooklyn |
Harriet Hughes | Warren Street Houses | Brooklyn |
Hizam Wahib | Arab-American Family Support Center | Brooklyn |
Howard Kollins | Boerum Hill Association | Brooklyn |
Jason Salmon | Senator Montgomery’s Office | Brooklyn |
JoAnne Simon | NYS Assemblywoman | Brooklyn |
Jocelyn Simonson | Brooklyn Law School | Brooklyn |
John Skaller | District Leader | Brooklyn |
Justin Pollack | 87 Smith Street | Brooklyn |
Mark Gelbs | 84th Precinct Council | Brooklyn |
Nan Blackshear | Brooklyn Borough President’s Office | Brooklyn |
Peter Bray | Brooklyn Heights Association | Brooklyn |
Richard Bearak | Brooklyn Borough President’s Office | Brooklyn |
Robert Perris | Brooklyn Community Board #2 | Brooklyn |
Sandy Balboza | Atlantic Avenue Betterment Association | Brooklyn |
Sara Nordman | Atlantic Avenue BID | Brooklyn |
Shana Mosher | State Senator Kavanagh’s Office | Brooklyn |
Sharad Kohli | 265 State Street | Brooklyn |
Steven Levin | NYC Councilmember | Brooklyn |
Steven Smith | Downtown Brooklyn Neighborhood Alliance | Brooklyn |
Tiffany McKelvy | G.M.A.C.C. Inc. | Brooklyn |
Tyler Nims | Lippman Commission | Brooklyn |
Zachary Katznelson | Lippman Commission | Brooklyn |
Ben Thomases | Queens Community House | Queens |
Claudia Chan | LaGuardia Community College | Queens |
Dominick Pistone | Kew Gardens Civic Association | Queens |
J. Carter | Kew Gardens Civic Association (sitting in for Steve Bell) | Queens |
Jane Stanicki | Hour Children | Queens |
Mary Abbate | Queens Community House | Queens |
Murray Berger | Kew Gardens Civic Association | Queens |
Robin Spigner | District Leader | Queens |
Rosemary Zins | Queensborough Community College | Queens |
Seth Willens | Community Board #9 (sitting in for Andrea Crawford) | Queens |
Sister Tesa | Fitzgerald Hour Children | Queens |
Steve Bell | Kew Gardens Civic Association | Queens |
Sylvia Hack | Community Board #9 | Queens |
(No name recorded) | Confucius Plaza | Manhattan |
(No name recorded) | Smith Houses | Manhattan |
(No name recorded) | Hamilton-Madison House | Manhattan |
(No name recorded) | Chatham Towers | Manhattan |
(No name recorded) | Community Board 1 | Manhattan |
(No name recorded) | Community Board 3 | Manhattan |
(No name recorded) | Chinatown Partnership | Manhattan |
(No name recorded) | Chung Pak | Manhattan |
(No name recorded) | Chinese- American Planning Council | Manhattan |
(No name recorded) | Street Corner Resources | Manhattan |
(No name recorded) | Smith Houses | Manhattan |
(No name recorded) | Chatham Towers | Manhattan |
(No name recorded) | Hamilton-Madison Houses | Manhattan |
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