Block by Block by CB & CD
Mayor Mamdani’s Land Inventory Fast Track Tracker includes two sites in CB6, Gowanus Green and the Brooklyn Marine Terminal.
The LIFT list has 120 city owned sites for housing. We’d like to add one more. 250 Baltic Street →What the shorthand means
- HPD
- Department of Housing Preservation and Development, the city's housing agency. 93 of the 120 sites.
- EDC
- Economic Development Corporation, which handles city owned land tied to economic development, including the Brooklyn Marine Terminal. 21 sites.
- NYCHA
- New York City Housing Authority, the public housing authority, building on land at existing developments. 5 sites.
- ECF
- Educational Construction Fund, which builds housing above new public school space. 1 site.
- Pre-RFP
- The city has named the site but has not yet asked developers to bid.
- RFP Active
- The city has asked for bids and is waiting on them.
- Developer Selected
- A developer has been picked. Public review has not finished.
- Pre-Public Approval
- The project still needs a public approval, such as a rezoning or a land use review.
- Post Public Approval
- The approvals are done. Nothing here has been built yet.
- BKCB6
- Brooklyn Community Board 6. The first two letters are the borough, BK Brooklyn, MN Manhattan, QN Queens, BX the Bronx, SI Staten Island. CB and the number are the community board.
- Council 39
- City Council district 39. There are 51 of them, and they do not line up with community districts.
The ranking behind the map
Why this page exists
In May of 2026, Mayor Mamdani and the Deputy Mayor Bozorg published Block by Block.
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Like the other pages on the BKCB6 Use of Land hub, this tries to offer a clear-eyed synthesis and the tools to look at this from some new vantage points that may help you better understand it. Housing costs are at a crisis level, and having the best plan possible is important for today, tomorrow, and well into the future for New Yorkers, whether they are here or want to be here.
From the CB6 perspective, we have 2 sites listed in the district, Gowanus Green and the Brooklyn Marine Terminal, which will add thousands of housing units. But this is a crisis that needs everything possible to be done, and it's our number one district need priority, so we'll look to add to this plan. The most immediate example that comes to mind is using 250 Baltic Street (the floors above the CB6 office), as it wouldn't even require a zoning change, is close to transit, and has much of the infrastructure to convert it to housing. Anyway, I'll stop there and ask that you check it out and let me know what you think.
What the plan says caused the shortage
What the plan says caused the shortage
What the plan commits to
The sites the city has picked
What the plan commits to
The sites the city has picked
Sources
Sources
Ours: the community district, council district and neighborhood for each site, worked out from the published coordinates, and every comparison on this page against homes finished, rent and rezonings.
What the list adds up to
In CB6: Gowanus Green and the Brooklyn Marine Terminal
In CB6: Gowanus Green and the Brooklyn Marine Terminal
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What the list means, district by district
What the list means, district by district
Every site, in full: all 120
Every site, in full
The shortage, in the numbers
The shortage, in the numbers
Over the ten years to 2024 the city finished about 26,600 homes a year for a city of more than eight million people. The rental vacancy rate is near zero, well below the roughly 5 percent a functioning rental market needs, and below that threshold landlords hold the leverage, rents rise, and tenants have nowhere to go.
CB6’s own record
CB6's own record
That works out to about one new home for every forty people living here over a decade, and most of it came out of the Gowanus rezoning, without which the figure would be far lower. What comes next sits on the two sites the city has named here, Gowanus Green and the Brooklyn Marine Terminal, neither of which has been built.