Mayor Zohran Mamdani says the city is planning a significant expansion of housing in Prospect Park South, with a proposal to add about 1,000 new units along McDonald Avenue and Coney Island Avenue, many of them permanently affordable.<\/p>\n
The City Planning Commission is seeking zoning changes that would allow taller, denser and more affordable housing on the two corridors. Officials say the next phase depends on community feedback, and residents are already weighing in.<\/p>\n
Janice Hamann, who lives near the area, said the neighborhood needs more housing.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe want neighbors we pushed for the existing upzoning that happened in 2009,” she said but added her and other residents of the nearby Beverly Square West historic district want to be have clarity on the boundaries of the project. <\/p>\n
\u201cMy feedback is build, but build in a way that doesn\u2019t destroy something unique and special,\u201d said resident Lisa Draho adding “we want to make sure the units that do come are actually affordable.”<\/p>\n
Alice Barrett, who lives near Coney Island Avenue, said the commercial corridor is the right place for new development.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s low\u2011rise at the commercial area. It\u2019s not a green space,\u201d she said. \u201cWhen you look in this direction toward our neighborhood, this is a green oasis.\u201d<\/p>\n
Local businesses say more residents would bring much\u2011needed foot traffic.<\/p>\n
\u201cThat\u2019d be great,\u201d said Muheed Ali, who owns a Gyro and Cookie Store on Coney Island Avenue. \u201cThe more people can come, the better.\u201d<\/p>\n
The proposed corridors would intersect with the planned Interborough Express, which would connect South Brooklyn with outer Queens.<\/p>\n
Planning Commission official Sideya Sherman said the project creates an opportunity to build housing around future transit.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is a community that will have to have a line in the future,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n
She says residents will also be able to weigh in on what should come with the new development, including the potential for more parks, public spaces, and other zoning changes to many of the current surface lots, and industrial zoned spaces. <\/p>\n
News 12 was told the public comment period will last one year, before any plans move forward.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Mayor Zohran Mamdani says the city is planning a significant expansion of housing in Prospect Park South, with…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":241218,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[98,100,99,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-241217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn","tag-brooklyn-headlines","tag-brooklyn-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241217","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=241217"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/241217\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/241218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=241217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=241217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=241217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}