NYC Parks lays out timelines for North Brooklyn park projects in October update
NYC Parks detailed construction schedules for Box Street Park, the Metropolitan Recreation Center, American Playground, and McCarren Park projects in its October update to Community Board 1.
By Bushwick Daily News Desk
Oct. 13, 2026 · 2 min read
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani at the start of construction on Box Street Park in Greenpoint on Thursday, Oct. 1. Ed Reed / Mayoral Photography Office
NYC Parks lays out timelines for North Brooklyn park projects in October update
NYC Parks detailed construction schedules for Box Street Park, the Metropolitan Recreation Center, American Playground, and McCarren Park projects in its October update to Community Board 1.
NYC Parks laid out construction timelines for a slate of North Brooklyn park projects in its October update to Community Board 1, delivered Tuesday, October 13, headlined by the start of construction on Box Street Park, a $40 million conversion of a former MTA site along Newtown Creek into a 2.5-acre public park.
Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani joined Parks Commissioner Tricia Shimamura, Assemblymember Emily Gallagher, Councilmember Lincoln Restler, Community Board 1 and community members at the Greenpoint site on Thursday, October 1, to…
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