Atlantic Avenue Mixed-Use Plan

The Atlantic Avenue Mixed-Use Plan is a community-led planning process for an inclusive, mixed-use stretch of Atlantic Avenue and neighboring blocks in Crown Heights and Bedford-Stuyvesant.

The plan would support new housing with affordable housing, new space for jobs and services, safer, more pedestrian-friendly streets and investments in neighborhood improvements.

Atlantic Avenue Mixed-Use Plan fact sheet.

What does mixed-use mean?

Streetscape with storefronts and people crossing a crosswalk

Example of a mixed-use block in Boerum Hill, Brooklyn

“Mixed-use” describes an area or property that allows for multiple uses, such as housing, retail, commercial, industrial, etc. Examples of “mixed-use” may be a building with ground floor shops and apartments above, or a building with light manufacturing, art studios and offices.

Why Atlantic Avenue?

Atlantic Avenue is one of Brooklyn’s most important east-west corridors, connecting Downtown Brooklyn to Queens and Long Island. The plan area is in a transit-rich part of Central Brooklyn, surrounded by thriving residential neighborhoods where housing demand and costs have soared in recent decades.

The current zoning rules, mostly unchanged since 1961, prevent new housing and limit job growth despite the area’s proximity to mass transit, retail, schools, parks, arts and cultural institutions and more.

For example:

Building new housing is not permitted
New commercial and industrial buildings are generally limited to one or two stories and must provide a substantial amount of parking, which does not meet the needs of today’s businesses

Plan Area

The Atlantic Avenue Mixed Use Plan area runs along an approximately 13-block stretch of Atlantic Avenue and neighboring blocks of Crown Heights and Bedford-Stuyvesant between Vanderbilt and Nostrand Avenues.

Atlantic Avenue Mixed Use Study Area Map

The map above shows the primary study area where land use and zoning changes are being considered, along with buffer areas to identify other neighborhood plan opportunities, especially for public realm and capital investments. View a larger image of the plan area map.

Get involved

Working Groups Round 3:

Join local stakeholders and city agencies to help review and finalize community recommendations for the future of Atlantic Avenue!

Streets, Infrastructure, Open Space | May 22, 2023, 6:30pm – 9pm
Fort Greene Council's Grace Agard Older Adult Center | 966 Fulton St., Brooklyn NY 11238
Register here.

Economic Development, Human Capital, Services | May 24, 2023 6:30pm – 9pm
Fort Greene Council's Grace Agard Older Adult Center | 966 Fulton St., Brooklyn NY 11238
Register here.

Land Use, Density, Housing | May 30, 2023, 6:30pm – 9pm
Fort Greene Council's Grace Agard Older Adult Center | 966 Fulton St., Brooklyn NY 11238
Register here.

Contact Us
Please contact NYC Planning at AtlanticPlan@planning.nyc.gov or (718) 780-8280 for more information.

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