On May 28, 2025, the New York City Council approved the city-led Atlantic Avenue Mixed Use Plan (AAMUP, pronounced "aim up"), rezoning a low-density industrial stretch of Atlantic Avenue and surrounding blocks in Brooklyn’s Crown Heights and Bedford-Stuyvesant neighborhoods to facilitate higher density, mixed-use development, which is expected to result in 4,600 new housing units. AAMUP also includes more than $200 million in dedicated funding for area-wide improvements such as public realm, streetscape, and infrastructure upgrades.
“After over a decade of advocacy from the community to address this neighborhood’s outdated zoning and underinvestment, our administration has delivered,” said Deputy Mayor for Housing, Economic Development, and Workforce Adolfo Carrión, Jr. in a press release. “With thousands of new homes and jobs alongside hundreds of millions of dollars in infrastructure investments, the city’s partnership with the community will revitalize this critical corridor and bear fruit for decades to come.”
AAMUP establishes the Special Atlantic Avenue Mixed Use District, consisting of an approximately 21-block stretch of Atlantic Avenue and the surrounding area between Nostrand Avenue to the east and Vanderbilt Avenue to the west, in Brooklyn Community Districts 3 and 8.
The newly-adopted zoning is aimed at creating significant residential development, including an estimated 1,900 units of permanently affordable housing pursuant to the Mandatory Inclusionary Housing program, while promoting compatible light industrial uses in mixed-use developments. The majority of the rezoned area along Atlantic Avenue will now allow for mixed-use developments containing between 5 FAR and 9.02 FAR, and the majority of the rezoned blocks surrounding Atlantic Avenue will now allow for mixed-use developments containing between 2 FAR and 6.5 FAR.
“Today’s approval marks the beginning of a new chapter for Atlantic Avenue,” said Department of City Planning Director and City Planning Commission Chair Dan Garodnick. “With updated zoning and smart investments, the corridor will offer more of the homes, jobs, safe streets, and open space that Brooklynites urgently need.”
AAMUP includes a $115 million capital commitment from the city for a comprehensive redesign of Atlantic Avenue with immediate safety improvement projects at key intersections and future bike infrastructure improvements in the surrounding area. AAMUP also includes a nearly $100 million commitment for redesigns and upgrades of major open spaces and playgrounds in the area, as well as commitments by the MTA for improvements to local subway stations.
The City Council’s approval of AAMUP represents the culmination of more than a decade of community-led planning efforts by Brooklyn Community Board 8, the Department of City Planning, community leaders, and the two Council Members whose districts overlap the project area, Crystal Hudson and Chi Ossé.
This area-wide rezoning represents another step in the Adams Administration’s efforts to address New York City’s housing shortage. We will continue to monitor the administration’s other neighborhood initiatives, including the Midtown South Mixed-Use Plan and OneLIC, as they advance through the public review process.