City Pitches 4K Apartments for Industrial Central Brooklyn Stretch
A low-density corridor through Central Brooklyn recognizable for its body shops and storage facilities could see about 4,000 new apartments under an early zoning proposal released Wednesday, up to 38 percent of which could have income-restricted rents.
Wednesday’s virtual meeting marked a step forward in a complex mixed-use rezoning plan for Atlantic Avenue between Vanderbilt and Nostrand avenues and surrounding blocks, touching Crown Heights, Prospect Heights, Clinton Hill and Bedford-Stuyvesant.
“It’s a draft,” said District 35 Councilmember Crystal Hudson ahead of the presentation. “It will most likely be further modified as we move through the process, and there are going to be multiple opportunities for revisions and modifications.”
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