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The City of New York Department of General Services
for Department of Correction
Rikers Island, New York





Rikers Island is a 400-acre tract of land owned by the City of New York located in the East River. The majority of the City's inmate population is detained in the nine institutions located on Rikers Island.

Since 1983, Gonchor has designed and successfully completed more than $650 million of construction on Rikers Island including:

- Infirmary/Mental Health Center
  992 Medical and psychiatric beds,   
  maximum security.
- System-wide Cook/Chill Production Kitchen &
  Storehouse
  Centralized food service facility
- Kitchen Reconstruction
  Renovation for four facilities
- Otis Bantum Correctional Center, Building B
  500-cell addition
- Rose M. Singer Center
  800-bed Mized Security Correctional Institution       for women
- George R. Vierno Center
  853-bed Maximum Security Correctional                   Institution for men
- Correctional Instiution for Men
  Alterations