The city revealed details Wednesday about how it plans to remake a stretch of Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn, a major step in a decade-long effort to replace a dreary mile of warehouses and auto shops with much-needed housing.
The 13 blocks, running between Vanderbilt and Nostrand avenues, have long been zoned to permit only light manufacturing—a designation with little relevance in today’s city, as the industrial sector declines and the surrounding neighborhoods of Crown Heights and Bedford-Stuyvesant grow more in-demand for residents.
Now, Mayor Eric Adams’ Department of City Planning says it will propose changing the corridor to a mixture of residential and commercial zoning that could create as many as 4,000 new homes, including 1,550 income-restricted apartments, according to a proposal unveiled Wednesday evening.