Located in southern Queens, the new 116th Precinct Station House is a part of the NYC Department of Design and Construction’s Design Excellence program. The station house is sited as a relational intermediary between neighborhood scales of residential and rail—and a physical connector for residents and the Rosedale Station entrance. It serves as an important social connector between law enforcement and the public, in the progressive, community-based policing model.
The 116th Precinct acts as a civic connector socially through public engagement programming in the community room and with the creation of a new public open space, and physically with massing that opens up toward the public areas, and an enclosure treatment that dematerializes the traditional heavy facade of the precinct.