4,600 new homes slated for Brooklyn's Atlantic Avenue as NYC Council votes on rezoning

May 28, 2025, 8:14 a.m.

The plan also includes more than $215 million in community and infrastructure investments.

A street sign on Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn

About 4,600 new homes could be built along a roughly mile-long stretch of Atlantic Avenue and surrounding blocks in Brooklyn under a rezoning plan the New York City Council is expected to vote on Wednesday.

The vote comes just a couple of weeks after two key Council panels approved the plan following years of community engagement on the future of the borough's historic "Main Street." The rezoning covers a mostly contiguous slice of Prospect Heights, Crown Heights and Bed-Stuy and is part of citywide efforts by Mayor Eric Adams' administration to create more housing as New Yorkers face a dire shortage of affordable homes.

Roughly 40% of the new residential development allowed by the rezoning would be priced at levels considered affordable. That includes 1,000 units for households making around 60% of the area median income, or $97,200 a year for a family of four, and 900 units largely for those below 50% of the area median income, or $81,000 for a family of four.

"The rezoning single-handedly produces more affordable housing units than have been built over the entire previous decade in the area," the Council said in a release Tuesday.

The study area for the Atlantic Avenue mixed-use plan.

Beyond land-use changes enabling this construction, councilmembers are also voting on more than $215 million in community and infrastructure investments tied to the rezoning.

They consist of tenant and homeowner protections, upgrades to streets, parks and the Franklin Avenue station on the A and C lines, and workforce initiatives. The funding also includes $500,000 for a study on ways to refresh the Bedford Atlantic Armory on Atlantic and Bedford avenues, although lawmakers say it will continue to serve as a men's shelter.

“After more than a decade of advocacy, Central Brooklyn is finally getting the community-led rezoning it has demanded," Councilmember Crystal Hudson, who represents the area, said in a statement earlier this month.

The Council is set to vote on the plan at a legislative meeting Wednesday afternoon.

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