Mamdani targets Brooklyn corridors for major housing push 

Mayor Zohran Mamdani is teeing up his first major neighborhood rezoning, targeting a stretch of Brooklyn south of Prospect Park for taller buildings and thousands of apartments as the city bets big on transit-oriented development. The administration’s proposed “South of Prospect Plan” would rezone commercial corridors along Coney Island and McDonald avenues and adjacent blocks, according to Gothamist. The area, dominated by one-story storefronts, auto shops and low-rise housing, sits near multiple subway lines and along the proposed route of the long-awaited Interborough Express light rail project. The plan signals where Mamdani intends to focus his housing agenda: lower-scale neighborhoods […] This article originally appeared on The Real Deal. Click here to read the full story.