Overview
- BNYDC confirmed it declined to renew Easy Aerial’s lease, removing the company from the city-owned industrial campus.
- Spokesperson Claire Holmes said the decision was based on operational and campus compliance factors, not politics.
- Councilman Lincoln Restler praised the move, arguing the public site should not host companies whose drones become weapons of war.
- State Assemblyman Kalman Yeger condemned the action as harmful to jobs and characterized it as politically driven.
- The action followed sustained protests targeting the company’s ties to the Israeli military, while the mayor’s office offered no comment and Easy Aerial’s leaders did not respond.