{"id":323833,"date":"2026-08-18T07:32:28","date_gmt":"2026-08-18T07:32:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/323833\/"},"modified":"2026-08-18T07:32:28","modified_gmt":"2026-08-18T07:32:28","slug":"activists-push-to-remove-crye-from-brooklyn-navy-yard-over-military-ice-connections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/323833\/","title":{"rendered":"Activists Push to Remove Crye From Brooklyn Navy Yard Over Military, ICE Connections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Companies at Brooklyn Navy Yard provide New York City jobs, but at a cost many activists are unwilling to accept. <\/p>\n<p>Crye Precision remains a tenant at the Brooklyn Navy Yard as activists continue pressing the city-owned industrial campus to remove the tactical-apparel company over its\u00a0alleged connections with ICE and other military operations, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amny.com\/news\/brooklyn-navy-yard-mamdani-jobs-ice\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">amNewYork<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The dispute puts Mayor Zohran Mamdani\u2019s opposition to federal immigration enforcement at odds with his administration\u2019s emphasis on manufacturing and jobs. The corporation says Crye employs hundreds of workers, including skilled seamstresses, and uses modern garment-production technology. The 300-acre Navy Yard houses more than 550 businesses supporting more than 13,000 jobs, according to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brooklynnavyyard.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">BNYDC<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Federal records, however, show the businesse&#8217;s\u00a0presence in Brooklyn are\u00a0not as simple as added jobs.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>ICE awarded Crye two purchase\u00a0orders of more than $433,000 for uniforms and jackets in 2018 and 2019. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.usaspending.gov\/recipient\/6d1a391e-16b7-831c-93b5-62f29f75f4c5-P\/latest\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">USAspending records<\/a> list about $3.3 million in federal awards to Crye over the past 12 months. At the beginning of 2026, U.S. Customs and Border Protection awarded Crye more than $39,000 for cold-weather apparel for the Border Patrol&#8217;s Houlton Sector in Maine.<\/p>\n<p>After Mayor Zohran Mamdani reappointed Lindsay Greene as the Yard&#8217;s president and CEO last month, questions about renewals for businesses at the Navy Yard arise.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/dbnynow.org\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Demilitarize Brooklyn Navy Yard<\/a> campaign began in September 2024 and has held regular demonstrations targeting Crye and drone manufacturer Easy Aerial, calling for\u00a0companies linked to ICE or the Israeli military to be removed.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPublic land like the Navy Yard should not be doing business with companies that dress ICE officers and support ripping families apart,\u201d said Council Member Shekar Krishnan, chair of the Council\u2019s Oversight and Investigations Committee. Krishnan said he was exploring all tools within his office&#8217;s disposal to keep ICE operations off of public land.<\/p>\n<p>Greene argued the Yard&#8217;s mission aligns with Mamdani&#8217;s economic justice agenda, as reported by amNewYork.<\/p>\n<p>The BNYDC says its leases generally limit action against tenants that remain compliant with contractual requirements. The terms of Crye\u2019s lease and any renewal rights remain unclear, as the\u00a0BNYDC has not disclosed its expiration date.<\/p>\n<p>Activists plan to continue demonstrations, making a future renewal decision a potential focal point for the campaign.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Companies at Brooklyn Navy Yard provide New York City jobs, but at a cost many activists are unwilling&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":293225,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,121967,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-323833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-militaryus-customs-and-border-protectionimmigration-and-customs-enforcementbrooklyn-navy-yard-development-corporationeconomic-developement-corporationcrye-precisionnavy-yard","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=323833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/323833\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/293225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=323833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=323833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=323833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}