On a chilly afternoon on Jan. 15, 2025, the Coalition for Better Communities gathered with elected officials and community ...
We were one of the first families that entered Floyd Bennett, adapting as the shelter was growing,” says Kimberly, who ...
New York City has shuttered a sprawling tent complex that housed hundreds of migrant families on a remote former airport in ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...