Mayor Mamdani is standing up a 'Renew Crew' inside NYC Parks for fast-turnaround repair work — worth watching for contractors who chase the small maintenance and playground-repair contracts the agency currently puts out to bid, since an in-house rapid-response team could shrink that pipeline. The City Reporter

SILive reports a $2M funded makeover — new pathways, benches, landscaping — planned for a Staten Island park, the kind of small-to-mid capital job that lands on our board as a sitework bid once design wraps. SILive.com

Parks closed the Herbert Von King Park dog run in Bed-Stuy after elevated arsenic and mercury turned up in the soil — a contamination find that typically precedes a remediation contract once testing and scoping finish. Hoodline

Amtrak says it finished the first phase of East River Tunnel rehab and restored Line 2 service — not our beat's agency list, but the kind of tunnel-rehab milestone MTA-side contractors track for what it signals about the next phase's scope and letting. Amtrak Media

Queens Chronicle reports a bridge project in the borough has wrapped up — worth a follow once we can confirm which structure and which agency signed off, since a completion often triggers the next phase's bid package. Queens Chronicle

The mayor's office and NYCHA are rolling out public forums in every borough — a chance for contractors chasing NYCHA's $7.8B capital pipeline to hear directly how development plans and community pushback (including at a project drawing organized opposition) may reshape scopes. Mirage News