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| This accessible entrance requires someone to pull open the outer door if you are unable to. |
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Curved smooth benches outside the courtrooms, a challenge to sit on |
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| Courtyard, shadeless benches with uneven seat |
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| Entrance from 161 St to the courtyard |
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| Entrance |
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| No grass, just dirt around the trees |
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| Looking north from the sixth floor |
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| Looking toward the SE corner Drab prison like building |
1 comment:
The entrance to the courthouse facing E. 161st Street is the absolute worst decision ever. The street isn't wide enough to handle the traffic related to the court as well as the through traffic going to all points west and east, including the highway. It's chaos and pandemonium almost every day with not only regular traffic, but pedestrians jumping on and off buses on every corner, drivers coming in and out of the mall across the street, trucks delivering to the stores along 161st and a heavy police presence at all times. All that traffic tears up the street every few years,requiring extensive reconstruction and traffic detours and delays. Shortly before the Pandemic, they repositioned the bus stop, creating an awful island in the middle of all that traffic upon which travelers must stand, surrounded by cars and their exhaust. It's an accident waiting to happen. Who comes up with these ideas?! Instead of the big seating area in the back of the courthouse (facing Morris Avenue) which almost no one uses, the courthouse would have been better served via a large courtyard and driveway IN FRONT of the building, directing traffic and pedestrians off the main thoroughfare.
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