North Brooklyn Parks Alliance marked the fifth anniversary of Under the K Bridge Park on Thursday with a record-breaking fall gala and the launch of REBUILD NORTH BROOKLYN, a campaign celebrating the people, partnerships, and investments reshaping North Brooklyn’s public realm.

The sold-out evening welcomed 500 guests and raised approximately $250,000, surpassing NBK Parks’ fundraising goal and making it the organization’s most successful gala to date.

Happy Wednesday in NYC, where after 20 years, the empty lot on Box Street in Greenpoint is finally becoming a park.

Mayor Michael Bloomberg first promised to transform the site along Newtown Creek, partially occupied by a former MTA facility, into a 2.5 acre public park as part of a 2005 deal that opened up waterfront space for high-density housing. Over the following decades, the project was repeatedly stalled and postponed, as many of the local residents who originally fought for the park were priced out of their neighborhood.

On Thursday, Mayor Mamdani gathered with Councilmember Lincoln Restler and other administration officials to announce that the city has finally broken ground on the Box Street Park. The development will cost the city $40 million, with construction expected to finish in the summer of 2028. The new park will feature an elevated esplanade, accessible pathways, a basketball court, terraced seating, a lawn, a dog run and other amenities, as well as native wildlife like Eastern redbud trees and purple love grass.

“More than 20 years ago, City Hall promised to transform this lot into a park,” Mayor Mamdani said to the assembled crowd on Thursday. “That was 2005. When that promise was made, movies came out on VHS. Tobey Maguire was Peter Parker. And I’m pretty sure I wasn’t even born.”

“For too long, we’ve had broken promises that have led neighbors to believe that nobody’s looking out for us, that nobody’s actually fighting for us,” said Councilmember Restler. “Mayor Mamdani is delivering something that’s even more important than a park—faith.”

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Oversexed teenagers, invincible killers and a deserted cabin – what could possibly go wrong?

Slasher movies that focus on teenagers being picked off by a killer are a horror staple. The victims were typically white and heterosexual, with villains that seemed to punish sexually active women while allowing the chaste girls to live. This survivor is often called the final girl.

Jane Schoenbrun’s “Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma” (2026) has earned significant critical praise for its queer and postmodern take on slasher films. Its heroine, Kris, who’s played by Hannah Einbinder, is a budding filmmaker with an encyclopedic knowledge of the slasher subgenre. It gives audiences more than one final girl and directly challenges puritanical rules about sex.

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