100 Centre Street: Kevin Rios

Friday, February 29, 2008

Kevin Rios

Kevin Rios is walked into the Tombs by Police Detectives. According to the NY Daily News, "A brazen rapist who attacked a baby-sitter in Harlem and stole a pimp's car after assaulting a prostitute was nailed Friday by DNA evidence, police sources said.Kevin Rios, 21, of Manhattan, was busted in the Jan. 30 attack in Spanish Harlem. He allegedly followed a 34-year-old Jersey City woman into the building where she worked as a sitter and raped her in an elevator at knifepoint.Rios' DNA, which was on file from an unspecified previous conviction, matched that of the assailant, sources said. One source called Rios "very unrepentant, dangerous." "This guy has the potential to do much damage without a shred of guilt," the source said."

Built: 1938-1941

Architect: Wiley Corbett and Charles B. Meyers

The Criminal Courts Building is located on the block surrounded by Centre, Leonard, Baxter and White Streets. It currently houses the Criminal and Supreme Courts, the District Attorney, Legal Aid, offices for the Police Department, Department of Correction, and Department of Probation.

The Criminal Courthouse was designed by Wiley Corbett and Charles B. Meyers. Construction began in 1938 and was completed in 1941, at a cost of $14 million. The site, formerly known as Collect Pond, had been the location of the old 1894 Criminal Courthouse and the old Tombs prison.

The seventeen-story Art Deco courthouse has a steel frame and a granite and limestone facade. The building is composed of four towers in front, with a jail behind. The taller center tower is stepped, like a ziggurat. The windows and spandrel form vertical bands alternating with the stone piers. The imposing entrance consists of two huge, freestanding granite columns. A wing designed by the Gruzen Partnership was added in 1986.

One of the original designers, Harvey Wiley Corbett (1873-1954), was one of the architects who planned Rockefeller Center. He also designed the Art Deco style North Building of Metropolitan Life. Charles B. Meyers (1875-1958) designed the Family Courthouse at 135-43 East 22nd Street, the unusual Art Deco/Byzantine style Main Building of Yeshiva University, and the former Municipal Health Building nearby at 125 Worth Street. He won a gold medal for his New York State building at the 1915 Panama Pacific Exposition in San Francisco.

On the inside, a hanging clock marks the center of the two-story high marble lobby. There are Art Deco lighting fixtures and metal doors and two grand staircases with ornamental railings. The simple courtrooms have wood wainscoting and Art Deco lighting fixtures.

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100 Centre Street

Friday, February 29, 2008

Kevin Rios

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