The city unveiled new plans for the long-planned rezoning of Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn late Wednesday, but residents swiftly expressed concerns about getting pushed out of their own neighborhood and fears that new development would not be affordable. The new draft zoning framework is an early step in a process set to transform an important stretch of Brooklyn that’s been rapidly gentrifying .
Mayor Eric Adams has proposed neighborhood-level rezonings near future Metro-North stations in the East Bronx and along an Atlantic Avenue light manufacturing corridor in Crown Heights and Bedford-Stuyvesant. The local councilmembers say they support both plans.