Mayor Adams' Statement on City Council Land Use and Zoning Committees Vote on Atlantic Avenue Mixed-Use Plan

May 12, 2025

NEW YORK – New York City Mayor Eric Adams today released the following statement after the New York City Council Land Use and Zoning Committees voted in favor of the Atlantic Avenue Mixed-Use Plan:

“For too long, restrictive, outdated zoning has held our city and our neighborhoods back. To address the city’s decades-long housing crisis and make New York City the best place to raise a family, we must take bold, transformational action to build more homes in transit-rich areas near New Yorkers’ jobs and services. That is why our administration put forward ‘City of Yes for Housing Opportunity,’ the most pro-housing zoning reform in the city’s history, which — along with our five neighborhood rezonings proposed in Central Brooklyn, the East Bronx, Midtown South, Jamaica, and Long Island City — will cement our legacy as the most pro-housing mayoral administration ever. Altogether, our neighborhood rezonings and ‘City of Yes for Housing Opportunity’ will help us deliver more than 130,000 new homes for New Yorkers over the coming decades — opening the door for more housing to be created under this administration than the last 20 years and two administrations combined.

“Today, we took another major step forward toward building and preserving more affordable housing, creating more jobs, and improving streets and parks in Central Brooklyn with the Atlantic Avenue Mixed-Use Plan. I thank the City Council for advancing our ambitious plan through the Land Use and Zoning Committees and for their shared commitment to a plan that will create the homes that New Yorkers need and will address local priorities. We look forward to continuing to work with our partners in the City Council in advance of a full vote later this month.”

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