Sources135678111516. Historic districts appear on the date the Landmarks Preservation Commission designated them; their outlines are cut to the BKCB6 boundary. Park names are today’s names from NYC Parks. Street and neighborhood names on the base map are from OpenStreetMap and CARTO. The zoning map by year starts from the 1961 map and redraws each rezoning’s outline on its effective date, ending at today’s map. Where an area was rezoned more than once, the district between changes comes from the City’s zoning change records, the project description or the lots inside it.
Sources135711. Zoning shares are lot area, not counting streets. Homes counts the apartments in each of today’s buildings (PLUTO) in the year the building was built, so it leaves out homes later demolished or combined, and conversions are counted in the building’s original year. Housing Database figures, for net homes completed each year, start in 2010.
Every lot in Brooklyn Community Board 6, traced from the 1961 zoning map through every zoning map amendment and land use application to today, and what was built after.
The current Zoning Resolution took effect on December 15, 196112, and the City’s map of zoning districts on that day is day one1. ULURP, with community boards at the beginning of the process, was created by the 1975 Charter Review Commission14. The first zoning map change in BKCB6 in the City’s records took effect in 197758. This page follows each of today’s tax lots7 from its 1961 district through every recorded change to its zoning now.
Sources137. Counts are today’s tax lots, placed on the 1961 map and on today’s zoning map. None of the City datasets used here lists the lots as they were in 1961, so the lot counts describe where today’s lots sat, and land area is the area of those lots, not counting streets.
Land area in each kind of district at the end of each year. Drag the slider to see BKCB6’s zoning in any year and the rezonings adopted that year.
Sources135678. Between rezonings, a lot’s district comes from the records described under Sources and method.
Sources57891011. Dates are effective dates from the City’s amendment map, or the completion date in the application record when none is given.
These zoning map amendments are in the City’s application records for BKCB6, but the City’s map of amendments has no outline for them, so their lots are not traced above.
Sources1711. Net homes in completed jobs (new buildings, alterations and demolitions) from the Department of City Planning Housing Database, which covers jobs filed or completed since January 1, 2010. 2026 is through the latest release. See The True Sum of Housing Built.
Sources8910. Action names are as the City’s Zoning Application Portal gives them.
Today’s lots come from PLUTO. Each lot is placed on the City Planning 1961 zoning district map and on today’s zoning map, and checked against the outline of every adopted zoning map amendment. Where a lot was rezoned more than once, the zoning between changes comes from the Department of City Planning’s zoning change records for 2001 on, and from the project description for earlier amendments. Dates are the amendment’s effective date, or the date the City marked the project complete when no effective date is recorded.
Related: The Rules, Defined: zoning codes and the rezoning simulator · Rezonings Charted, citywide