{"id":361988,"date":"2026-10-01T17:12:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-01T17:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/361988\/"},"modified":"2026-10-01T17:12:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-01T17:12:08","slug":"news-12-brooklyn-box-street-park-construction-to-begin-in-greenpoint-after-decades-of-delays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/361988\/","title":{"rendered":"News 12 | Brooklyn | Box Street Park Construction To Begin In Greenpoint After Decades Of Delays"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced Thursday that construction will begin on Box Street Park in Greenpoint.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The announcement fulfills a decades-old, unfulfilled promise to transform the property into a public waterfront attraction.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The future park will be built on the site of a former MTA facility. Officials say the $40 million project will transform the area into an open green space with gardens.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">\u201cConstruction is set to begin this fall and will be completed by the end of summer 2028,\u201d Mamdani said.<\/p>\n<p data-rich-text-paragraph=\"true\">The park will also feature an elevated esplanade, ADA-accessible pathways, terraced granite seating, a basketball court, a picnic area and a public restroom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mayor Zohran Mamdani announced Thursday that construction will begin on Box Street Park in Greenpoint. The announcement fulfills&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":361989,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-361988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=361988"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/361988\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/361989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=361988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=361988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=361988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}