William Alatriste for the City Council
Councilmember Karen Koslowitz, at the podium, is one of a group of Queens legislators who have said they'd support reopening the House of Detention as a jail.
‘At some point a mayoral administration that is in earnest about carrying out its agenda has to resolve that it won’t pander to any given neighborhood’s more sinister instincts.’
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