Astoria Rezoning Filed for 117-Unit Mixed-Use Building

A zoning application filed with the New York City Department of City Planning on Oct. 27, 2026 would rezone a block of Astoria, Queens to allow an eight-story, 117-unit building in place of the site’s current low-rise zoning.

Why it matters

The zoning map amendment, filed Oct. 27, 2026, with the New York City Department of City Planning would upzone a cluster of lots at the corner of Astoria Boulevard, 8th Street and 28th Avenue in Astoria, Queens, from a mix of R6A, R6 and R6/C1-3 districts to R7A and R7A/C1-2. The filing, tracked under project number 2023Q0144 in the city’s Zoning Application Portal (ZAP), is a land use application, not an approval. It now enters the Uniform Land Use Review Procedure, which runs through Community Board 1 in Queens, the borough president, the City Planning Commission and the City Council before any vote.

If the rezoning is ultimately approved, it would let the applicant, Mona Choudhri, replace the existing low-rise zoning allowance with a denser envelope sized for an eight-story building. The site runs along three frontages: 8-01 through 8-29 Astoria Boulevard, 28-05 through 28-07 8th Street, and 8-16 through 8-28 28th Avenue, a block that currently sits under R6A, R6/C1-3 and R6 designations. The application also seeks a city map amendment, which is typically used where a proposed building footprint crosses an existing mapped street or lot line.

The numbers

The filed plan calls for a new building totaling 92,118 sq ft of floor area across eight stories. Of that, 85,718 sq ft is designated residential space and 6,400 sq ft is designated community facility space. The residential portion is sized for 117 dwelling units. The ZAP record lists the application as covering Queens Community District 1, which includes Astoria, and names the review type as ULURP, the standard track for zoning map changes of this kind. No hearing date had been posted on the project record as of this filing.

What’s next

Because this is a filed application, not a decided one, the project has to clear Community Board 1 Queens’ advisory review, the Queens borough president’s review, a City Planning Commission vote and a final City Council vote before any of the proposed units could be built. Any of those bodies can seek changes to the scope, the unit count or the community facility allocation before a final vote. Developers and brokers tracking the Astoria Boulevard corridor should watch the ZAP record for the Community Board 1 calendar date, which typically sets the clock for the rest of ULURP. A separate filing two blocks away, at 8-48 Astoria Boulevard, converted a 2026 land purchase into a 24-unit new-building application within about six months, a reminder that corridor has an active development pipeline running in parallel with this rezoning request.

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