The rezoning that put the wheels in motion for the development of Brooklyn’s Park Avenue four years ago covered most of 4th Avenue between President and 15th streets, allowing for the construction of 12-story residential buildings on the thoroughfare. What was left out of that rezoning is now set to join the higher-rise party. One of the areas covered by the Department of City Planning’s draft rezoning proposal for Gowanus is the west side of 4th Avenue between 1st and Douglass streets.” Those blocks could get 12-story residential buildings, but unlike the rest of Fourth Avenue, there would have to be “active ground floor uses.”–Brownstoner