The Brooklyn House of Detention on Atlantic Avenue and Boerum Place is back in business. The business of being a jail, that is.

The New York Times reports that Justice Sylvia O. Hinds-Radix, a Brooklyn judge ruled that the city should resume sending
inmates to the Brooklyn House of Detention, which stopped housing them
overnight in 2003.

But there's more. Judge Hinds-Radix also ruled that the city's effort to double the size of the jail will require environmental and land-use
reviews.

That's a win for neighborhood groups who opposed the expansion. Read the NYT article here.