Migrants at Floyd Bennett Field Migrant Center on June 7, 2024, with police presence due to a reported assault. Paul Martinka “Today’s announcement is a direct reflection of the tireless ...

Migrants staying at Floyd Bennett Field have started going door to door in nearby neighborhoods to beg for cash. Paul Martinka “There is definitely a lot of nervousness in the neighborhood, that ...

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 ...

The four tents, which can house 2,000 migrants, are set up along Runway 19 at Floyd Bennett Field on Dec. 20, 2023. (Josephine Stratman) The shelter currently houses around 1,700 migrant families.

NEW YORK - Nearly 2,000 migrants are being relocated Tuesday from the Floyd Bennett Field shelter to the James Madison High School in Midwood. Students were dismissed at their regular time Tuesday ...

NEW YORK (PIX11) – Twenty-five migrant shelters, including the one located in Floyd Bennett Field, will be closing in the near future, according to New York City Mayor Eric Adams. The shelters ...

FLOYD BENNETT FIELD — With the Sept. 14 deadline looming, a last ditch effort to revoke the migrant shelter lease at Floyd Bennett Field took place outside the former federal airfield on Sept. 8.

City Hall confirmed that more than 850 children living at Floyd Bennett as of Dec. 3 were enrolled in New York City public schools. Yet professionals working with these children are concerned that ...

MARINE PARK — Floyd Bennett Field in Marine Park, in its 92-year history has contained many things: A commercial airport, a staging point for many record-breaking solo flights, a U.S. Navy air ...

Shelter for asylum seekers opens at Floyd Bennett Field Gov. Kathy Hochul gave her approval to build a shelter at the former airfield in August 2023 , and the city entered into a lease agreement ...

Floyd Bennett Field is named after, well, Floyd Bennett, who was, appropriately for the purposes of the field, a pilot. Born in Warrensburg, New York during the 1890s, ...