New York City Police Academy

[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.

[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.

[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.