Fear and loathing at Brooklyn’s Floyd Bennett Field: Neighbors fuming over migrants’ ‘lawlessness’
NY Post
It’s been a rude awakening for the bedroom communities near Brooklyn’s Floyd Bennett Field, ever since 2,000 migrants were moved there.
Since mid-November, new lawlessness has plagued the area, with shoplifting, panhandling, gutter scams, and, according to some, signs of street prostitution.
And the once-serene, federally-run site — a historic former airfield off Flatbush Avenue near the Marine Parkway Bridge — has itself become an eyesore, where vicious brawls and pot-puffing are common, those living there said.
“This sh-t is out of control,” said a 20-year veteran NYPD cop when asked about the migrants at Floyd Bennett Field, a fraction of the 164,000 illegal border crossers bused to New York since August — and 68,000 currently in the city’s care.
“That’s all these people do is rob and steal. They should feel lucky that they’re here, but they’re out there committing crimes. We don’t know anything about them. We don’t know what they’ve done in these other countries.”
SCAMMING AND BRAWLING
