The Floyd Bennett Field location is one of 25 city-run emergency shelters across the city and upstate New York that have either already been closed or will be shut down in the coming months, Mayor ...

Barbara Guarenas, 34, and her family have been regularly harassed and her son once kicked by residents not approving of the migrants are seen at Floyd Bennett Field on Dec. 20, 2023.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 — 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.

Floyd Bennett Field, an inactive airfield in Brooklyn, now holds four large tents side-by-side, transforming the area into a temporary housing facility designed to accommodate up to 2,000 migrant ...