On a chilly afternoon on Jan. 15, 2025, the Coalition for Better Communities gathered with elected officials and community ...
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Life After Floyd Bennett
We were one of the first families that entered Floyd Bennett, adapting as the shelter was growing,” says Kimberly, who ...
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 ...
A Bronx neighborhood is up in arms over a 2,200-bed migrant men’s shelter due to open on their block — but officials at City ...
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 ...
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.
Migrant families at the Floyd Bennett Field shelter, in southern Brooklyn, will be moved out by Jan. 15, though the site won’t be totally wound down until March, according to city government ...
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 city was forced to scramble to find space for migrants flooding into the city since 2022, converting old schools and ...
Mayor Eric Adams’ office announced Tuesday that the city will close the controversial migrant shelter at Brooklyn’s Floyd Bennett Field, along with numerous other sites, over the next couple of months ...
It’s Going to Be a Long Winter at Floyd Bennett FieldFamilies who weathered this week’s storms are worried about what happens when it snows.