Brooklyn sports facility Aviator Center to close due to COVID, migrant center — ousting thousands of young athletes

Fuente: New York Post

A sprawling Brooklyn sports complex that hosts one of the few hockey rinks in the city is shutting down in two weeks — after years of dropping revenue due to the COVID-19 pandemic and a nearby migrant camp that made worried people avoid the facility, sources said. Aviator Sports and Events Center at Floyd Bennett Field will close when its lease with the National Parks Service expires on April 14 — throwing out thousands of “devastated” young athletes from a hub they call “home. ” “It’s heartbreaking.