A new 30-page report released by the Regional Plan Association (RPA) offers a restorative, sewage treatment plant–anchored vision of redemption and renewal for an island long populated by—and synonymous with—New York City’s troubled main jail complex.
Responding to a larger (and not without controversy) decarceration plan in which said troubled jail complex, Rikers Island, will be shuttered and replaced with a network of “modern, smaller, humane” detention facilities spread across all five borough save for Staten Island by 2027, the RPA teamed with the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) to reimagine the 413-acre island in the East River as a citywide hub for
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