A NYC manufacturer that supplies drones to Israel to monitor the Gaza Strip border was booted from the city-owned Brooklyn Navy Yard six weeks after pro-Palestine Mayor Zohran Mamdani took office.<\/p>\n
The Brooklyn Navy Yard Development Corp. \u2014 whose board members serve <\/a>at the pleasure of the mayor\u00a0and\u00a0manage the 300-acre industrial park \u2014\u00a0opted not to renew its lease with Easy Aerial,<\/a> Councilman Lincoln Restler (D-Brooklyn) gloated on X Thursday.<\/a><\/p>\n \u201cThis public asset should not be leasing space to companies producing drones that are being transformed into weapons of war,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n Easy Aerial, a NYC manufacturer supplying drones to Israel to monitor Gaza, was booted from the Brooklyn Navy Yard soon after Mayor Mamdani took office. Here, an IDF soldier shows a reporter one of the company\u2019s drones. Easy Aerial\/YouTube<\/p>\n The company has long been the target of protests<\/a> outside the former Navy shipyard<\/a>, including by a group called \u201cDemilitarize Brooklyn Navy Yard\u201d that demanded the board evict tenants that assist Israel.<\/p>\n State Assemblyman Kalman Yeger (D-Brooklyn), a staunch Zionist, said the decision to boot Easy Aerial is foolish. <\/p>\n \u201cChasing good jobs out of New York because Mr. Mamdani and his friends hate Jews is probably not a very good economic development program,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n Easy Aerial\u2019s exodus from the Fort Greene side of the industrial park <\/a>illustrates the change in philosophy at City Hall since Mamdani was sworn in as mayor on Jan. 1.<\/p>\n Former Mayor Eric Adams, a retired ex-cop and avid Israel supporter, was so impressed with a joint presentation by Easy Aerial and Tel Aviv-based\u00a0Blue White Robotics<\/a>\u00a0at a NYC-Israel Chamber of Commerce event in 2022 that he once mulled using a mini-army of their drones to fight crime in the Big Apple, The Post previously reported.<\/a><\/p>\n