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Migrant tent city in Brooklyn will stay another year as feds extend lease for controversial encampment
NY Post ^ | 9/14/24 | Rich Calder

Posted on 09/14/2024 12:50:07 PM PDT by Libloather

The controversial migrant encampment at Brooklyn’s Floyd Bennett Field will remain for another year, The Post has learned.

The National Parks Service, which oversees the historic former airfield off Flatbush Avenue, notified city officials Friday it has agreed to the Adams administration’s request for a lease extension to continue operating the 2,000-bed tent city.

The original lease was set to expire Saturday.

“This extension request was thoroughly reviewed and responds to the State of New York’s continued emergency declaration,” wrote Jennifer T. Nersesian, superintendent of Gateway National Recreation Area, a part of the National Park Service.

“As stewards of this site, visitor access, public safety, and preservation of natural and cultural resources are our top priorities,” she added. “Our team has worked to ensure Floyd Bennett Field remains accessible to the public while the lease is in place and will continue to do so for the extension of the lease.”

Since the migrant shelter was set up, residents of Brooklyn’s Marine Park, the Rockaways and other nearby sleepy communities have complained the new arrivals are bringing more shoplifting, panhandling, gutter scams and other unsavory activity to their neighborhoods.

“The people who live in Rockaway and [southern] Brooklyn have been extremely clear on this: they do not want a shelter in Floyd Bennett Field,” fumed Councilwoman Joann Ariola (R-Queens), upon learning of the extension.

“I will keep searching for ways to reverse the shelter-city status and end the migrant crisis. We cannot keep pouring taxpayer dollars into a failed project that endangers New Yorkers and diverts much-needed city funds from those who need them most.”

(Excerpt) Read more at nypost.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Conspiracy; Health/Medicine; Weather
KEYWORDS: aliens; brooklyn; encampment; lease; newyork; tents
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1 posted on 09/14/2024 12:50:07 PM PDT by Libloather
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To: Libloather

They are ILLEGAL ALIENS, not migrants.


2 posted on 09/14/2024 12:51:44 PM PDT by Lizavetta
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To: Libloather

You’d think someone else would want them.


3 posted on 09/14/2024 12:57:32 PM PDT by SaxxonWoods (This world is driven by envy, not greed.)
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To: Libloather
feds extend lease for controversial encampment

Show me how they have a constitutional right to do so.

The feds are constitutionally presumptively forbidden to occupy or meddle in land within a state's borders.

4 posted on 09/14/2024 1:04:17 PM PDT by Jim W N (MAGA by restoring the Gospel of the Grace of Christ (Jude 3) and our Free Constitutional Republic!)
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To: Libloather

Now you know why the feds raided the mayor’s top officials homes. Then this. Extortion. Nothing in politics is a coincidence. Certainly not in this year of the cats.


5 posted on 09/14/2024 1:08:33 PM PDT by blackdog ((Z28.310) Be careful what you say. Your refrigerator may be listening & reporting you.)
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To: Libloather

Training camp for the Yankees and the Mets.


6 posted on 09/14/2024 1:09:33 PM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (abc ! America's lower case far-left network.)
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To: Libloather

American citizens be damned.


7 posted on 09/14/2024 1:09:59 PM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus”)
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To: Libloather
“As stewards of this site, visitor access, public safety, and preservation of natural and cultural resources are our top priorities.” -- Jennifer T. Nersesian, superintendent of Gateway National Recreation Area, a part of the National Park Service.

BULLSHIT!! Obviously your top priority is the horde of illegals that has invaded our land to permanently cement Demoncrat power and control.

They all lie. Every last one of them.

8 posted on 09/14/2024 1:15:22 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (May the soy boys, feminazis, and alphabet weirdos choke on the toxic fumes of our masculinity)
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$1,733,750 monthly lease payments for the city to operate the tent shelter.
Who owns the property? And how are they tied in to the gov?


9 posted on 09/14/2024 1:37:05 PM PDT by Pocketdoor
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To: Libloather

This is a new term I’ve been seeing everywhere the past few days....”New Arrivals”.


10 posted on 09/14/2024 1:41:50 PM PDT by mowowie
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To: mowowie

I saw where they were evicting the ones that were in a shelter for 2 month to make room for the “New Arrivals”.


11 posted on 09/14/2024 1:44:11 PM PDT by Pocketdoor
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To: Libloather

The primary duty of any US president is to keep the American people safe, to stop a foreign invasion.

Not only have they failed completely in their duty, but they have actively encouraged this invasion.

The threat of invasion across our southern border is precisely what brought the US into World War 1.

How is it that these people are not under arrest for treason ?

In any other period of American history, they would by now be awaiting execution.


12 posted on 09/14/2024 1:48:19 PM PDT by Thapsus_epiphany (Socialism is a prison, Communism is a death camp )
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To: SaxxonWoods

They are here for the welfare.

Trading their votes for room and board is a hell of a deal for them.


13 posted on 09/14/2024 1:55:21 PM PDT by cableguymn (They don't want peace they want skeletons )
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To: Libloather
National Park Service owns this former airfield. Who is getting the contracts to provide services to the illegals there? Former NYPD Detective Bo Dietl, who has also worked for Fox News, and raised tons of cash for Mayor Adams' campaign:

Migrant contract delayed for New York City mayor’s friend

That's just for security coverage. What about the other services needed? How many more friends of NY State politicians are getting rich off of this?

14 posted on 09/14/2024 1:56:51 PM PDT by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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To: Lizavetta

They are ILLEGAL ALIENS, not migrants.

Migrants now also mean Illegals


15 posted on 09/14/2024 1:59:56 PM PDT by butlerweave
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To: Pocketdoor
"Who owns the property? And how are they tied in to the gov?"

It's run by the National Park Service. Mayor Adams's office has apparently issued contracts to various vendors for services to the tent city. Guaranteed his friends and big donors got some of those contracts. Former NYPD detective and close friend of the Mayor's, who also raised tons of campaign money for him, was given the contract for security. There were complaints about it, but I can't find anything that said the contract wasn't approved.

16 posted on 09/14/2024 2:00:26 PM PDT by mass55th (“Courage is being scared to death, but saddling up anyway.” ― John Wayne)
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To: butlerweave
Migrants now also mean Illegals

I'm sure it does. Leftists change the meaning of everything.

Abortion is now reproductive care.
Sex change is now gender affirming care.
Normal heteros are now cisgender.

They are in the country illegally and are illegal aliens. You can use whatever definitions you'd like but I'm sticking to the real meaning.

17 posted on 09/14/2024 2:20:11 PM PDT by Lizavetta
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To: Libloather

Councilwoman Joann Ariola

++++++++++++++++++++++

OK Don’t laugh.


18 posted on 09/14/2024 2:29:58 PM PDT by sonova (No money? You're free to go.)
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To: sonova

Pitcha?


19 posted on 09/14/2024 2:30:45 PM PDT by OKSooner (Domestic animals for Trump.)
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To: butlerweave

you spelled “invaders” wrong...


20 posted on 09/14/2024 2:32:06 PM PDT by heavy metal (smiling improves your face value and makes people wonder what the hell you're up to... 😁)
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