Brooklyn Community Board 1’s Parks & Waterfront Committee will meet Thursday evening to hear NYC Parks present an infrastructure plan for McCarren Park’s Union Avenue Plaza, one of several park items on the committee’s agenda. The meeting is set for 6 p.m. Thursday, November 12, at the Bushwick Inlet Park Office, 86 Kent Avenue, between North 9th and North 10th streets in Williamsburg.

John Russel, of NYC Parks, is listed as the presenter for the Union Avenue Plaza plan. The Union Avenue project is in design and is anticipated to be completed in spring 2027. It is one of two McCarren Park projects slated to include green infrastructure stormwater retention work carried out by the Department of Environmental Protection.