On a chilly afternoon on Jan. 15, 2025, the Coalition for Better Communities gathered with elected officials and community ...
Mayor Eric Adams on Saturday marked the final chapter of the infamous migrant tent city at Brooklyn’s Floyd Bennett Field — and apologized to New Yorkers for the massive shelter placed in ...
Advocates rallied on the steps of City Hall on Thursday to call on Mayor Adams to do more to protect migrants and follow city ...
A family outside the migrant family shelter at Floyd Bennett Field. The first child stopped coming to school in November. Then another, followed by another. At last count, five middle school kids ...
Migrant parents and children on a recent morning lugged suitcases across the wind-swept tarmac to the Q35 bus stop outside the remote Floyd Bennett Field tent complex, beginning a two-hour trek to the ...
NEW YORK — The controversial Floyd Bennett Field migrant shelter in Brooklyn closed Saturday, just four months into a new year-long lease. Mayor Eric Adams was on hand to celebrate as workers ...
On January 7, during a typically busy 8 a.m. rush, the Q35 drove past Floyd Bennett Field without stopping. “There was no one there to pick up,” an organizer with Floyd Bennett Field Neighbors ...
The last of the roughly 2,000 people living on a windswept tarmac at Floyd Bennett Field, once the city’s first airport, departed the gated encampment over the weekend, and crews were seen this ...
NEW YORK (AP) — New York City has shuttered a sprawling tent complex that housed hundreds of migrant families on a remote former airport in Brooklyn, as it shrinks the emergency shelter system built ...
Migrants leave their tents at Floyd Bennett Field to board school buses bound for a local high school in anticipation of a storm with expected wind speeds of more than 70 mph on Jan. 9 in Brooklyn.