Port OKs $20 Million Study for JFK Delta Terminal Rebuild

**Matt Molnar** · 2008-05-23, 05:36 PM

Originally Posted by Idlewild

Most of those arguments, except for the prisoner issue, were quashed or ignored for the Atlantic Yards project.

An airport has so many variables that affect people for miles and miles around that it can't be compared to any other type of construction project.

You could always use Governor's Island.

Too close to lower Manhattan.

the south end of Roosevelt

There's a bridge in the way, and the river isn't wide enough anyway. Remember Corey Lidle.

Hell ain't nothing happening in the south Bronx.

Too late, hipsters are flocking there.

Originally Posted by Lezam

Well they did, JFK was paved over marsh land just like brookville was.

That was almost 70 years ago, when Queens was mostly farmland, and we were worried about whether we would soon be speaking German and not about whether a family of snapping turtles might have to find a new place to live. :)

**Idlewild** · 2008-05-23, 05:58 PM

Yeah but that was back in the late '40's when it was a golf course and EPA didn't exist.

**bonanzabucks** · 2008-05-23, 07:56 PM

As for Rikers, we would need to find housing for the 30,000 inmates who live there, and jails are probably the only thing more despised by NIMBYs than airports. Environmentalists would not allow any filling in the bay anyway.

Actually, there are 13,500 inmates in the NYC Department of Corrections penal system. Probably about 11,000 of them are on Rikers. How would I know? I used to compile those statistics when I worked for them! Actually, when I was working for DOC, which was a while ago, the inmate population was about 14K, but I've heard it's gone down to about 13.5K.

You could always use Governor's Island, the south end of Roosevelt or one ofthe many islands scattered throuh out NYC waters to replace Riker's. Hell ain't nothing happening in the south Bronx.

There are already two jail facilities in the South Bronx. One of them is closed and was actually built on an old Staten Island Ferry barge. Yes, it actually does rock with the waves.

Isn't Governor's Island a school now?

**Idlewild** · 2008-05-23, 10:15 PM

I was joking about Governor's Island. No one knows what to do with it. I'd sell it to Hugh Hefner or Larry Flynt myself. I guess nobody thinks much of turning the whole of Staten Island into a mega airport?