# @hyperallergic on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DOwGNfbE6Bh
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/34786151-hyperallergic-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2025-09-18T17:12:06.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Hyperallergic (@hyperallergic) — https://gondola.cc/hyperallergic

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Eight activists were arrested outside the Brooklyn Navy Yard yesterday, September 17, while forming a blockade in protest of two tenants they say are profiteering from Israel’s violence against Palestinians. 

Tucked in the Brooklyn Navy Yard complex (BNY), a group of city-owned buildings where tenants pay no real estate taxes, the surveillance drone manufacturer Easy Aerial is listed as a “Fine Art/Photography” business. The company has ties to both the Israeli military and the United States Department of Homeland Security. Not far away, Crye Precision, a textile producer that has allegedly supplied apparel for the Israeli military — a claim the company denies — carries the label “Fashion/Accessories” on the BNY’s website. 

Over the last year, activists, community members, and, most recently, one state senator have called upon the BNY to evict Easy Aerial and Crye Precision. Maisha Morales, a community advocate involved in local politics who resides in Brooklyn’s Fort Greene neighborhood, told Hyperallergic at yesterday’s protest that the classification of Easy Aerial as a “fine art” business was “an insult to our intelligence.” 

“How dare you? This is not fine arts,” Morales said. “I can’t control what happens with my federal tax dollars, right? But I can control what happens with my local tax dollars.”

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Photo Isa Farfan/Hyperallergic

#BrooklynNavyYard #Demilitarize #Protest #Surveillance

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