Last summer, as New York City was in the throes of a migrant influx from the southern border, residents near the Brooklyn Navy Yard began to notice a growing number of African and Latin American migrants milling around the neighborhood's parks and sidewalks...A block away, the city had quietly begun sheltering migrants inside an empty 10-building office compound.
Their willingness to welcome migrants soon gave way to a litany of quality-of-life complaints, from littering and loitering to concerns about safety, leading to crowded town-hall meetings and pressure on Mayor Eric Adams to reverse course.
Then, this summer, some of their worst fears came to fruition. On the night of July 21, a migrant man was shot and killed at a park near the shelter. A few minutes later, two other Venezuelan migrants were fatally shot outside the shelter after two men rode by on a moped and one of them opened fire...
The shootings, which do not appear related, escalated anxieties among some neighborhood residents already on edge after a stabbing outside the shelter in June. The Brooklyn-Queens Expressway acts as a visual buffer between the shelter and nearby residential areas, but it is not an actual one.
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