Brooklyn Atlantic Avenue Mixed Use Plan (AAMUP)

Notice of Availability of Final Scope and Notice of Acceptance of Draft EIS

Kings County - The New York City Department of City Planning, as lead agency, has made the Final Scope available and accepted a Draft Environmental Impact Statement on the proposed Atlantic Avenue Mixed-Use Plan (AAMUP). The Final Scope and Draft EIS are available at 120 Broadway, 31st Floor New York, NY 10271 and online at: https://zap.planning.nyc.gov/projects/2022K0436.

The action involves the a proposal by the New York City Department of City Planning (NYC DCP), together with the New York City Department of Housing Preservation and Development (NYC HPD) and New York City Department of Citywide Administrative Services (NYC DCAS), for a series of land use actions including zoning map amendments, acquisition, disposition of City-owned property and Urban Development Action Area Project (UDAAP), and zoning text amendments (including establishing a new Special District and Mandatory Inclusionary Housing [MIH]) (collectively, Proposed Actions) that would facilitate the implementation of a neighborhood land-use plan along Atlantic Avenue in Prospect Heights, northwestern Crown Heights, and southern Bedford Stuyvesant in partnership with elected officials, New York City agencies, community boards, and local stakeholders. The Proposed Actions would affect an approximately 21 block area, primarily along Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn Community Districts (CDs) 3, and 8, and generally bounded by Vanderbilt Avenue to the west, Nostrand Avenue to the east, Herkimer Street to the north, and Bergen Street to the south. In addition, the Proposed Actions would affect two, separate, non-contiguous areas on a portion of two blocks bounded by 6th Avenue to the west, Carlton Avenue to the east, Dean Street to the north, and St. Marks and Flatbush Avenues to the south; and Halsey Street to the north, Macon Street to the south, Nostrand Avenue to the west and Marcy Avenue to the east. The Proposed Actions are intended to reinvigorate portions of the 120 foot wide Atlantic Avenue thoroughfare and surrounding blocks and help mitigate the regional housing crisis by allowing the development of new housing, including affordable housing, and facilitating economic opportunity and the growth of local services and jobs in an area that has excellent public transit access and is near the major employment hubs of Downtown Brooklyn and Lower Manhattan. The project is located various location in Brooklyn, New York.