Bronx County Hall of Justice

265 East 161st Street | also 231 East 161st Street | Concourse Village | built 2003

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

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2001
August 14
Mayor Giuliani breaks ground for Rafael Viñoly's Bronx Hall of Justice
Mayor Rudolph Giuliani attended the groundbreaking for the Bronx County Hall of Justice, a steel-and-glass courthouse by Rafael Viñoly, on August 14, 2001. An earlier scheme for a 30-story tower with shops had been dropped after the 1995 bombing of the Alfred P. Murrah Federal Building, which also led to blast-resistant glass, a bulletproof lobby and a garage under the plaza rather than the building. The steel frame topped out on November 5, 2002. Planned as a four-year, $325 million job, it took six years and cost $421 million, after the first contractor was disqualified over suspected organized-crime ties.
Source: Wikipedia
2009
The new courthouse closes for a time as settling cracks its windows
Court officers said the Hall of Justice was sinking, and in 2009 it was briefly shut after a number of windows cracked or broke as the building settled. The city's 2015 capital plan set aside $35.3 million to fix work done wrong during construction, yet the courthouse has kept suffering broken windows, collapsing floors and floods that close its six basement courtrooms.
“…it was temporarily shut down in 2009 as several windows cracked or broke due to the building settling.”
Source: Wikipedia

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