The reopening, part of a reconfiguration of the jail system, comes despite past neighborhood resistance.
The reopening, part of a reconfiguration of the jail system, comes despite past neighborhood resistance.
Rescue teams were not being allowed into the garage until it had been shored up with wooden supports.
Emergency workers were searching through the debris at the garage, located next to a high-rise apartment building outside New York.
The construction manager for the dismantling of the building is involved in a court battle over tens of millions of dollars with the state agency that hired it.
The approval came after the Community Preservation Corporation, which is redeveloping the old Domino Sugar site, agreed to shorten the tallest towers and run a bus to the nearest subway.
Gary Barnett, a prolific developer in New York City, is starting construction on a $1.3 billion skyscraper on 57th Street that will be the tallest residential building in the city.
The architects Kazuyo Sejima, center, and Ryue Nishizawa, right, receive the Pritzker Prize from Thomas J. Pritzker.Architecture’s luminaries gathered at Ellis Island to bestow their version of the Nobel, the Tony, the Oscar.