City’s mixed-use plans for Brooklyn jail fall flat 

No workable bids have been submitted yet to the city to build offices and condos around the 275 Atlantic Avenue jail in downtown Brooklyn, according to a spokesman for the Department of Corrections. The city closed the jail in 2003, but planned to re-open it as part of a strategy to house fewer inmates on Rikers Island and cash in on Downtown Brooklyn’s boom. Originally, the borough’s president, Marty Markowitz, had hoped that the city would sell the jail and build a new one somewhere else with the proceeds, but that plan proved too costly.