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New York City Police Academy
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The old NYPD Police Academy, East 20th Street, Manhattan. The building now is home to the NYPD's Candidate Assessment Center.
The
New York City Police Academy
is the
police
academy of the
New York City Police Department
(NYPD).
Within the
organization of the New York City Police Department
, the Chief of Training oversees the Training Bureau, which includes the Police Academy, the
NYPD Cadet Corps
, and other units.
[1]
Contents
1
History
2
Description
3
References
4
External links
History
[
edit
]
The old Police Academy opened in 1964 and was located at 235 East 20th Street in
Manhattan
,
[2]
in the
Gramercy Park
area.
[3]
Within 25 years, however, the facility was regarded as antiquated and obsolete,
[3]
[2]
and no longer had capacity for larger classes of police trainees.
[4]
Jeremy Travis
(then the special counsel to the police commissioner, and years later the president of the
John Jay College of Criminal Justice
) urged construction of a new facility in 1985.
[2]
In 1989,
Mayor
Edward I. Koch
promised a new facility to be located in the
South Bronx
, and in 1992, during the mayoralty of
David N. Dinkins
, architects were chosen and plans were released. However, Mayor
Rudolph W. Giuliani
canceled the plans for a new facility.
[2]
[3]
In 2007, plans for a new police training center were revived under Mayor
Michael R. Bloomberg
and Police Commissioner
Raymond W. Kelly
, with the new facility to be located on a 35-acre tract in
College Point, Queens
, that previously housed a police tow parking lot
[2]
owned by the city.
[3]
Seven other locations, including the decommissioned
Flushing Airport
, the
Seaview Hospital
and
Farm Colony
in
Staten Island
, and
Floyd Bennett Field
in
Brooklyn
, were considered before the College Point site was ultimately chosen.
[4]
Groundbreaking officially occurred in December 2009.
[2]
Phase One opened in December 2015.
[5]
After the NYPD moved its academy to Queens, the fate of the old academy building was initially unclear.
[6]
In 2008 and 2013, local residents and
Manhattan Community Board 6
pushed to convert the eight-story building into a public school.
[7]
In October 2016, however, the NYPD opened its Candidate Assessment Center in the old building; the center recruits applicants to join the police force.
[8]
[9]
Description
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edit
]
The new facility is located at 130-30 28th Avenue, was constructed at a cost of 0 million, and has three buildings with a combined 730,000 square feet of space.
[2]
It is not easily accessible by public transit; the closest
New York City Subway
station,
Flushing–Main Street
, is more than one mile away.
[3]
Perkins & Will
,
Tactical Design
, and Michael Fieldman were the project's architects, and
Turner
and
STV
were the
construction managers
.
[2]
The three buildings at the academy are a classroom and office building (eight stories, with an atrium, cafeteria, auditorium, and library); a "physical and tactical training" building, including a large gymnasium and swimming pool; and a central utilities plant.
[2]
The training facilities include simulated locations, such as a mock subway station, mock courthouses, and mock
precinct
houses.
[2]
The main police academy site does not include a
firing range
(the NYPD range is located at
Rodman's Neck
in
the Bronx
),
[5]
[2]
nor is the facility used for driving instruction (NYPD officers train in driving at Floyd Bennett Field).
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