State Island Courthouse Completion Nonetheless Highlights Construction Chaos in Outer Boroughs, Especially the Bronx!

Long overdue and grossly over-budget Staten Island Courthouse construction is finally finished. Photo by Jordan Moss

Despite more than a decade of delay and $100 million over-budget, the new courthouse in Staten Island that I wrote about twice over the summer is finally complete, reports the Staten Island Advance. Aside from that paper, I stated in my early posts that NYC’s comparatively massive amount of media stayed clear. I don’t understand — the project budget skyrockets and no other media makes a simple call to the state Dormitory Authority to find out what’s going so wrong? Heck, they didn’t even need to take the ferry over there!  If it weren’t for the Advocate there would be no published record of what was going on at all.

The Bronx had its own disaster with its relatively new 161st Street courthouse, but financially and time-wise nowhere near its Staten Island relative.

It would be great if a citywide journalist compared the Bronx and Staten Island courthouse calamities, which could play some role in preventing the next one.

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