NEW YORK — New York City might blow the 2027 deadline for closing Rikers Island by two years, according to a public notice on a city contract posted Monday.
The notice published in the City Record by the Department of Design and Construction announced a hearing to consider a contract award to the Tutor Perini Corp. for the construction of a new Brooklyn borough jail, one of several satellite lockups meant to replace Rikers.
The posting indicates the contract will run for 2,317 days from the date of the notice to proceed — or just over six years — placing the completion date in 2029, two years past the mandated deadline for shuttering Rikers.
