City-owned Brooklyn Navy Yard provides Crye Precision more than $2 million in rent and construction incentives.

New York City offers a contractor for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), the U.S. Border Patrol, and the Israeli Defense Forces millions of dollars in rent and construction subsidies, according to leases obtained by Drop Site through a Freedom of Information Law request.

Incentives offered by the Brooklyn Navy Yard to Crye Precision contrast with New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani’s policy positions. Earlier this month, Mamdani issued an executive order reaffirming the city’s “sanctuary” status and restricting local agencies from collaborating with federal immigration enforcement. The mayor also campaigned extensively against the ongoing genocide in the Gaza Strip.

The company currently holds three leases for spaces in the Brooklyn Navy Yard complex that were signed in 2012, 2019, and 2022. The leases range in size from 8,000 to 85,000 square feet, in terms of five to 20 years, with options to renew.

In response to Crye Precision’s military and DHS contracts, local community members organizing under the banner of Demilitarize Brooklyn Navy Yard have been pushing the complex to evict the company, as well as Easy Aerial, another military contractor that provides drones to the Israeli military and DHS. Federal contracts indicate that both Easy Aerial and Crye Precision have additional facilities in New Jersey.

Earlier this month, the Navy Yard’s board met some of the activists’ demands and declined to renew the lease of Easy Aerial.

  • adhd_traco@piefed.socialOPEnglish
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    5 days ago

    NYC relationship to that local business is not about the land. It’s that NYC subsidizes this business, despite what they are doing.

    Brooklyn Navy Yard, which is an ‘industrial yard’, leases property to businesses. But they are also a contractor for ICE, BPD, and the so-called IDF. So, from the point of view of those three war & terror machines, what’s the point of contracting an industrial park that leases properties? At least one of them is that it gives them a location for their military suppliers to do their work.

    From their website’s About page

    The Brooklyn Navy Yard (the Yard) is a mission-driven industrial park that is a nationally acclaimed model of the viability and positive impact of modern, urban industrial development. The Yard is home to 550+ businesses employing more than 11,000 people and generating over $2.5 billion per year in economic impact for the city.

    Two of the businesses they lease property to, as per the article:

    Crye Precision

    Crye Precision, designs and manufactures “combat proven” tactical gear and clothing for military applications

    Drop Site previously reported that Crye Precision has produced camouflage gear for the Israeli Defense Forces.

    Easy Arial

    Easy Aerial, another military contractor that provides drones to the Israeli military and DHS.

    Earlier this month, the Navy Yard’s board met some of the activists’ demands and declined to renew the lease of Easy Aerial.