The North Brooklyn Parks Alliance is helping lead an effort to create a Northside Improvement District, a business improvement district the group says would bring supplemental, reliably funded services to one of New York City’s fastest-growing and most commercially dense areas, with the unfinished Bushwick Inlet Park as a central case for why the money is needed. In a February 5 message to neighbors, Executive Director Katie Denny Horowitz wrote that the alliance, which she has helped lead through two decades of work on local parks and public spaces, began organizing for the district in 2023 alongside residents, small businesses, property owners and elected officials.