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| 19th Precinct (1887) In the 19th century, precincts were built in the style of Renaissance and Romanesque palaces and fortresses |
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| 52nd Precinct (1904) Around the start of the 20th century, however, many began to be housed in rented and retrofitted buildings across the city |
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| Fifth Precinct (1881) The city’s precincts span the history of its metropolitan police force, established in 1844. The oldest – the Fifth – was designed by official police architect Nathaniel Bush |
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| 40th Precinct (1924) A new 40th precinct designed by BIG promises the first community meeting room inside a precinct, to ‘encourage civic engagement’. Currently under construction in the Bronx, it has been interpreted by many as a $50m bunker |
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| 62nd Precinct (1905) Until the end of the 19th century, precincts had not only jails to hold alleged criminals, but dorms for ‘vagrants’ |
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| 69th Precinct (1968) The indignity of these antiquated and inadequate spaces led to an explosion of construction in the late 1960s |
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| 105th Precinct (1969) These new precinct designs would emphasise the ‘police-public partnership’ |
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| 112th Precinct (after 1969) The buildings designated space for auxiliary police, civil defence volunteers, the Police Athletic League – which coaches young people in sports and schoolwork – and visitors |
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| Seventh Precinct (1975) Today, urban design firm Studio Gang has explored strategies to improve police-community relations by reimagining police stations as ‘civic assets’ |
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| 49th Precinct (1985) Studio Gang has been consulting for the city, which is planning retrofits to precinct lobbies and public spaces |
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| 107th Precinct (1994) Graves’ project aims to show how the relationship between the precinct and the neighbourhood is continually recalibrated through the buildings |
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| 121st Precinct (2013) The 121st precinct in Staten Island, designed by Rafael Viñoly, is the most recent. The photographic series was originally published in Urban Omnibus |
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| 88th Precinct (1890) The aim was to convey the dignity of their civic function |
Source: Arresting architecture: New York's police stations – in pictures
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