Mayor opens new Courthouse.Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and New York New York, state, United States New York, Middle Atlantic state of the United States. It is bordered by Vermont, Massachusetts, Connecticut, and the Atlantic Ocean (E), New Jersey and Pennsylvania (S), Lakes Erie and Ontario and the Canadian province of State Chief Judge Judith S Judith [Heb.,=Jewess], early Jewish book included in the Septuagint, but not included in the Hebrew Bible, and placed in the Apocrypha of Protestant Bibles. It recounts an attack on the Jews by an army led by Holofernes, Nebuchadnezzar's general. . Kaye cut the ribbon last week on the new Criminal Supreme and Family Court complex in Brooklyn. The $670 million facility, located at 330 Jay St. in downtown Brooklyn Downtown Brooklyn is the third largest central business district in New York City (following Midtown Manhattan and Lower Manhattan), and is located in the , is the largest courthouse in New York State and will consolidate all of Brooklyn's Criminal Supreme and Family Courts. It stands 32 stories high, contains 84 courtrooms and has a large parking garage for court personnel. The Mayor and Judge Kaye also announced a commitment of $42 million to upgrade the Criminal Court building at 120 Schermerhorn St. and the Supreme Court, Civil Term courthouse at 360 Adams St. "Prior to the opening of the new courthouse at 330 Jay St., Brooklyn's courthouses were outdated out·dat·ed adj. Out-of-date; old-fashioned. outdated Adjective old-fashioned or obsolete Adj. 1. , in disrepair and inadequately served the county's needs," said Bloomberg. "This new state-of-the-art building gives Brooklyn the topnotch court facility it deserves for its Criminal Supreme and Family Courts. We're also committing an additional $42 million to upgrade the Criminal Court building at 120 Schermerhorn and the Supreme Court, Civil Term courthouse at 360 Adams." Construction of the new courthouse began in 2001. The building provides much needed space for Brooklyn's Criminal Supreme and Family Courts. The new courtrooms are enhanced with state-of-the-art technology to facilitate trials, including advanced audio-visual equipment for the display of evidence, teleconferencing capability so that prisoners can make appearances remotely from Rikers Island Ri·kers Island An island in the East River off the south coast of the Bronx, New York City. Part of the Bronx borough, it is the site of a large penitentiary. , and soon-to-come wireless internet capability. The courthouse also houses the county's Integrated Domestic Violence Court, where one judge hears all aspects of domestic violence matters bringing together the functions of the Family, Criminal, and Supreme Courts. In addition to housing all of the county's Family Court and Criminal Supreme court parts, 330 Jay St. will also accommodate offices of several City and State agencies, including Corporation Counsel, Health & Hospitals Corporation, Departments of Probation probation, method by which the punishment of a convicted offender is conditionally suspended. The offender must remain in the community and under the supervision of a probation officer, who is usually a court-appointed official. and Correction, Police Department, Administration for Children's Services, State Office of Children and Family Services and Department of Juvenile Justice A Department of Juvenile Justice is found in many places. Examples of such a department are:
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