Some city budget watchdogs have questioned the city's record infusion of money into court construction, although no one has publicly said the projects are not needed.
And across a central square that includes a new bocce court, construction has begun on a $14 million, 47,000-square-foot conversion of the main hospital building's north wing to 39 units of affordable housing, with rents from $450 to $750 monthly.
Katherine E. Finkelstein (NYT) MANHATTAN: CONSTRUCTION SCANDAL -- A second state employee pleaded guilty yesterday and faces up to six years in prison for siphoning more than $500,000 from court construction projects in Manhattan, the Bronx, Queens and Staten Island.
But his account is hindered by an affection for bureaucratic detail — court construction, organizing committees, secondary tournament results — and he buries some of his best material in the footnotes.
It consisted of eight bastions, two armories, two major depots, garrison headquarters, military court, construction office, garrison physician, guardhouse, officer apartments, military hospital and seven barracks.
And now you're paying surcharges and penalties for things like court construction, a DNA Identification Fund and emergency medical services.
The completed fort had "eight bastions, two armories, two major depots, garrison headquarters, military court, construction office, garrison physician, guardhouse, officer apartments, military hospital and seven barracks".
A Family Court building is under construction in Jamaica.
GUANTÁNAMO BAY, Cuba — If everything goes according to plan, trials of detainees could begin here soon in a court building now under construction next to an unused runway set against the glittering sea.
