Part 3

The above recommendations, if carried into effect, will contribute to making this entrance to Brooklyn harmonious and impressive. The studies submitted in plan and perspective should be understood to be only general suggestions along the lines indicated.

CONSIDERATION IN DETAIL OF THE REQUIREMENTS OF THE VARIOUS BUILDINGS

_Court House:_

The courts and allied departments, at present situated in the old court house building, in the Borough Hall, in the Hall of Records and in rented quarters, which would be housed in this building, are:

Supreme Court, Supreme Court, Appellate Division, County Court, Criminal Parts, County Court, Civil Parts, Grand Jury, County Clerk, District Attorney, Sheriff, Commissioner of Jurors, All Court Stenographers and Clerks, Justices' Chambers, Justices' Reference Library, Law Library.

Space occupied at the present time by the various departments is as follows:

Square Feet. County Clerk 20,000 District Attorney 8,000 Sheriff 2,200 Commissioner of Jurors 1,600 That space included in the Old Court House, Appellate Division, in the Borough Hall, Appellate Term in rented quarters including justices' chambers, about 120,000

The bill for the selection of the court house site does not provide quarters in this building for the County Courts, but it is likely that for several years all County Court business would be handled in the new court house.

A safe assumption for a new building providing ample light courts and set back fifty feet from both Court Street and Joralemon Street is ten court rooms per floor. A building having four court floors and two additional floors would have an area of approximately 450,000 square feet. Each court room unit, moreover, would be amply supplied with judges' robing room, clerks' room, and necessary witness, counsel and jurors' rooms. This building would be about 110 feet high to the main cornice. In addition, space would be provided for an emergency hospital, for newspaper reporters, and for a general public waiting room.

The new court house would provide seventy to eighty thousand square feet on the first floor, sixty-five to seventy thousand square feet approximately on the court room floors, and fifty thousand to sixty thousand square feet on the upper floor which should be planned as justices' chambers.

_Hall of Records:_

Space vacated by the county clerk, at present housed in the Hall of Records, would provide twenty-five per cent. additional room for the Surrogate's Court and the Registrar. Should a new structure of the same height as the court house be erected at some future date, and set back from Court Square and Fulton Street, the space available for those departments would be nearly doubled.

_Municipal Building:_

A building on the plaza site about eight stories high, would have a floor area equivalent to the building now planned to be placed on the Joralemon Street site. It would adequately house all of the administrative departments and bureaus. The chief officials would doubtless remain in Borough Hall. Borough Hall could be used entirely for administrative business as the Appellate Division would move to the new court house.

FREDERIC B. PRATT EDWARD M. BASSETT FRANK M. BROOKS ALEXANDER MCKINNY FRANK C. MUNSON JAMES H. POST CHARLES A. SCHIEREN ALFRED T. WHITE HOWARD O. WOOD EDWARD C. BLUM

Dated, July 25th, 1913