New York City Mayor Eric Adams has announced a multi-phase initiative to create up to 4,000 new apartments in Central Brooklyn. Known as the Atlantic Avenue Mixed-Use Plan, projections also anticipate the creation of more than 1,500 income-restricted homes centered on a 13-block stretch of Atlantic Avenue.
Today, the area is primarily zoned for industrial use, which has slowed the development of new residential buildings and commercial businesses integral to the creation of livable neighborhoods.
If approved, the plan would permit the construction of dense residential buildings up to 18 stories tall. This is the greatest pain point for opponents to the plan, who fear eased height restrictions could permanently change the character of the neighborhood and force out middle- and low-income residents who currently live in the area.
“In the midst of a severe housing shortage, New York City must use every inch of space it can to create new homes and invest in communities across the city,” said Mayor Adams. “I represented this community for more than a decade as a state senator and as Brooklyn borough president, and now as mayor, and I’ve fought for these kinds of investments throughout my career.”
Mayor Adams has also committed to invest $23.5 million in upgrades for St. Andrew’s Playground located between Atlantic and Kingston Avenues, Herkimer Street, and St. Andrews Place.
Before any shovels break ground, the Department of City Planning will examine the potential impact of the plan through its lengthy Uniform Land Use Review Process. The Mayor’s office hopes the process can begin as early as next spring.
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Put them near Deblasio’s house.
The buildings need to be larger.
Remember Atlantic Yard now Pacific Park still waiting for affordable housing as promised. keep dreaming It will never happen.
There already is affordable housing, what are you talking about? Typical uninformed naysayer comment.
the affordable housing built so far at Atlantic Yards is actually INCOME LINKED HOUSING for people who earn
$ 100,000 or more only when we have a housing crisis for low and middle income people in this city
Typical uninformed comment.
I am in affordable housing in one of the Pacific Park buildings. I am not in the lowest income bracket, but I definitely do not make $100,000 per year.
With that said, it’s definitely an issue because there is so little available in the lower brackets. I agree that this needs to be addressed because “affordable” is just a joke for most of these buildings.
Rain,
Your not in the lowest bracket but what is your rent?
Would you consider your rent affordable?
How much do you think someone making 100k can rent? That’s a max rent of 2.5k, see many nice 2 bedrooms for a small family for that money?
Have developers improve playgrounds. The city is in too much debt abd taxes are too high driving out business
There are still two super blocks available above LIRR Atlantic Yard that could support thousands of new apartments.
But Mayor Adams, you need to stop with adding parking garage spaces in new outer borough projects. They not only greatly add to project costs, but greatly add pollution and more congestion. Revise the zoning laws.
for one, lets see how long will it take for these apartments to start getting built, secondly, affordable units, down the block sits Atlanticyards/pacific park, the bait and switch so called affordable housing scheme, with only a salt of grain truly affordable units, and still waiting for the large amount truly affordable units, lets see if these 4,000 [affordable housing units] are truly affordable for all kinds of low, moderate, middle, and hopefully more senior incomes
This is a great opportunity for central Brooklyn. This stretch of Atlantic Avenue is an underutilized eyesore running right through some very historic parts of the borough. New housing construction will have minimal negative impact on people because very few people live or conduct business there. It is more than ripe for development. I hope the City Council approves the plan quickly and gets the ball rolling.
This is a good start, but the vast majority of Brooklyn and Queens is vastly underbuilt, which greatly contributes to the housing affordability crisis. We need much greater density around transportation hubs (i.e. around subway/ LIRR/ Metro North stations), greater investment in public transportation and greater resistance to reactionary NIMBYs across the city trying to keep people who don’t look like them out of “their” neighborhoods.
EM
let’s see them build a skyscraper next to your home and then claim it’s affordable housing.
I’ll bet a anything you want that you will instantly become a NIMBY
It’s easy to claim to be a YIMBY when it’s not next to your home
Hypocrite
Hypocrite. Whining for more housing for low income people and complaining when people say more needs to be build. Do you even live here?
And yes I am fine with them building close to me. In fact that’s what they’re doing…
When did I ever complain that more low and middle income housing should be built?
I complain when they build at 130% or 165% AMI which leads to housing for upper income people only!
I didn’t say a skyscraper close to you, I said right next door which will make any YIMBY a NIMBYin an instant.
FYI I live in one of the bouroughs
Any other questions?
LMK
Hope that the surrounding infrastructure also gets updates, as well as supporting institutions built, to help support an influx of residents in the future. I rarely ever see that part of the equation discussed, or even planned for.
Yay, 4000 new apartments in a few years. Just enough to house the migrants that arrived… this week.
The housing crisis begins and ends at the border. The border is wide open, on purpose. Hence, the housing crisis will not and can not ever end. It’s that simple.
You have to be joking.
You’re trying to blame the housing crisis for low and middle income people on migrants arriving?!
we’ve had a housing crisis for low and middle income people for many many years before any migrants arrived here and the fault is with MIH being built at 130% AMI and then declaring it affordable housing.
Until AMI is changed to not include the wealthy outer suburbs like Westchester County , nothing will change.
Your 100% on point, true facts
thank you
Prospect Heights is already extremely overwhelmed with obnoxious white fluff!! Save my neighborhood!!