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Atlantic Avenue Mixed-Use Rezoning from M1-2/R6B to R8A in Brooklyn, NY

  • When: 2025/03/27
  • Address: Atlantic Avenue between Flatbush and Nostrand Avenues, Brooklyn, NY
  • City: New York
  • State: NY
  • Category: Area Rezoning
  • Subcategory: Mixed-Use Rezoning
  • Asset Class: Land
  • Property Type: Placemaking
  • Size: One-mile stretch, 120 feet wide

The City Council approved the Atlantic Avenue Mixed-Use Plan rezoning to transform a one-mile section of Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn into a higher-density mixed-use corridor. The plan replaces existing M1-2 and R6B zoning with contextual R8A manufacturing and residential districts, enabling approximately 4,600 new housing units, including over 1,400 permanently affordable units under Mandatory Inclusionary Housing. It preserves light industrial uses through contextual districts while allowing new residential and commercial development on underutilized lots. Accompanying the rezoning, the council secured commitments for public realm improvements: sidewalk expansions, a road diet with protected bike lanes, modular bus boarding islands, daylighted intersections, new street trees, and the redesign of cross streets as bike boulevards. These changes aim to enhance safety, improve transit access, and create new public open spaces on a corridor that had become one of the city’s most dangerous thoroughfares.

Source

Applicant - New York City Department of City Planning


Engineering - City of New York


Ownership - City of New York


Developer - City of New York


Architect - City of New York


City Representative - NYC Department of City Planning


Density: R9A allows FAR up to 6.02; R7D up to 6.02; R6A up to 3.44 plus bonuses