Advocates Are Fighting NYC’s Eviction of Asylum Seekers From City-Funded Housing
When William Russo learned that some of the newly arrived asylum seekers being housed in tents on the grounds of Floyd Bennet Field, a former military airstrip in Brooklyn, New York’s Jamaica Bay, were asking passersby for warm clothing and boots, he knew he needed to do something to assist them. “Seeing desperate people going through recycling bins to collect bottles and cans for the 5-cent...