Anna M. Kross Center

18-18 Hazen Street | also 10-01 Hazen Street | Rikers Island | built 1933

The city photographed every building for its tax records around 1940 and again in the 1980s. NYC Municipal Archives.

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1978
The Anna M. Kross Center is completed at 18-18 Hazen Street, later the largest jail on Rikers Island
The jail at 18-18 Hazen Street on Rikers Island was completed in 1978 and first called C-95. It was named the Anna M. Kross Center for a former New York City Correction Commissioner. Spread over 40 acres and holding male inmates, it became the largest jail on the island, with a methadone detoxification unit and a mental health center, and it held more than 2,300 inmates a month.
Source: Wikipedia
2023
July
The Anna M. Kross Center closes as a jail while the island's kitchen stays in operation
The Anna M. Kross Center stopped operating as a jail in July 2023. Its role did not end entirely: the kitchen that serves Rikers Island kept running out of the complex. Named for Anna M. Kross, a former head of the city's Department of Correction, it had housed male inmates since its completion as C-95 in 1978.
“AMKC closed in July 2023. The kitchen for Rikers Island continues to operate out of AMKC.”
Source: Wikipedia

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