Rich Calder’s piece about the rent paid for offices used by the Kings County District Attorney’s Office is highly misleading (“How $uite It Is for DA,” June 17).
In fact, it was in 1983, during the Koch administration, that the Downtown Brooklyn Redevelopment Plan was negotiated and required that the Kings County District Attorney’s Office be an anchor tenant.
The redevelopment plan was continued during the Dinkins administration and implemented in the Giuliani administration in 1998, when we took our occupancy.
The Department of Citywide Administrative Services is the tenant for the space and is the signatory to the lease.
My office has nothing to do with rent payments or agreements, and all payments to the landlord are made by the DCAS.
Charles “Joe” Hynes
District Attorney
Brooklyn