Jan. 30, 2025 By Anna Bradley-Smith A major redevelopment project, set to transform a 10-building commercial site near the Brooklyn Navy Yard into a mixed-use area, has entered the city’s land use review process. A 2.6-acre block in Clinton Hill that sits across from the Brooklyn Navy Yard and is currently being mostly used…
Dec. 10, 2024 By Ethan Stark-Miller Mayor Eric Adams’ office announced Tuesday that the city will close the controversial migrant shelter at Brooklyn’s Floyd Bennett Field, along with numerous other sites, over the next couple of months amid a rapid decline in new arrivals. The 2,000-bed tent shelter, which sits on a decommissioned federal airfield…
Aug. 21, 2024 By Kirstyn Brendlen A city parks department employee has been charged with murder after he allegedly fatally shot a Venezuelan migrant in a Clinton Hill park last month. Elijah Mitchell, a 23-year-old seasonal parks worker from Queens, was indicted on Wednesday with murder as a hate crime, second-degree murder, criminal possession…
Aug. 2, 2024 By Kirstyn Brendlen
A 23-year-old Department of Parks & Recreation employee was arrested on Monday for allegedly killing a 30-year-old man last month in one of two violent incidents that left three men dead on the same night within just a few blocks.
Jul. 31, 2024 By Kirstyn Brendlen
A man has been arrested in connection with two possibly gang-related shootings that left three men dead in Clinton Hill this month as the city grapples with a spate of violence at migrant shelters.
Jul. 24, 2024 By Lloyd Mitchell
Community members in Clinton Hill and neighboring Fort Greene are seeing red after back-to-back shootings near a crowded migrant shelter on Sunday night.
Jul. 23, 2024 By Dean Moses
The NYPD has released new images of the man they now believe gunned down three people in two separate incidents near a Clinton Hill migrant shelter on Sunday night, killing two of the victims and leaving a third critically injured.
Mar. 7, 2024 By Anna Bradley-Smith
Spaced elbow to elbow in Hoyt Street’s City Life Church Monday night, Gowanus locals aired their concerns at a community meeting on a migrant shelter for 400 men slated to open in a former factory building on 3rd Street.
Jan. 29, 2024 By Adam Daly
Republican Congress Member Nicole Malliotakis on Thursday led a group of bipartisan New York elected officials in renewing their calls for the cancellation of the migrant shelter lease agreement at Floyd Bennett Field.
Jan. 10, 2024 Adam Daly & Lloyd Mitchell
Outraged parents and elected officials held a protest outside James Madison High School Wednesday morning after the city placed some 1,900 migrants there overnight to ride out a storm.