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Housing & Homelessness

Despite long journeys to NYC, some migrant families reject emergency shelter at Floyd Bennett Field

By Ethan Stark-Miller Posted on November 13, 2023

Several migrant families arrived at the newly-opened Floyd Bennett Field mega-shelter in southern Brooklyn on Sunday, only to look around and leave a few minutes later, according to a video posted online by a local pol.

In the video taken by Assembly Member Jamie Williams (D-Brooklyn), who represents the area and was on the scene, a group of migrant families piled out of an MTA bus, looked around the remote shelter site and then boarded another bus out of there shortly after. Williams is against the 2,000-bed shelter and is part of a lawsuit aiming to block it.

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Despite long journeys to NYC, some migrant families reject emergency shelter at Floyd Bennett Field

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