A new tour showcases the streets of East New York, and with plans to redevelop the area, the tour offers peeks into its past and its potential.

Created on a vacant lot, East New York Farms features a greenhouse, beehive and compost center among the crops.

"We grow over 200 varieties of crops, and I mean, we have 25 different varieties of hot peppers alone," said Deborah Greig, urban agriculture director for East New York Farms.

The farm is a stop on the new Re-Explore East New York trolley tour. This slice of Brooklyn has a reputation for having some of the city's meanest streets, but change is taking hold. The tour provides a window into the community's past and its potential. Borough President Eric Adams took part in Thursday's tour, along with NY1.  

"To be able to travel through East New York, see the beauty of East New York, understand where East New York was, where they are now and where they're going in the future," said Barbara Bullard, a tour developer with B. Bullard LLC.

That future may bear little resemblence to the present. City Hall wants to rezone the area to allow taller and wider buildings, part of the mayor's affordable housing program. Tens of thousands of new residents are expected.

"I support rezoning that is community-based and the community has input in it," Adams said. "And my goal is to make sure that the promises are not broken and that the community embrace the concept that development does not mean displacement."

"It is fear. We've seen it happen in other neighborhoods. We've seen people being displaced all throughout Brooklyn," said Catherine Green, founder of Arts East New York. "And we don't want that to happen in East New York."

Arts East New York, the group operating the tour, partnered with the city to create this marketplace and artist incubator space on New Lots Avenue. The group hopes to work with the mayor in the rezoning.

"He has an opportunity with a community that has the most vacant land in New York City to really get it right," Green said.

Which also means preserving history like African Burial Ground Square.   

There are two more tours this summer. The cost is free, but organizers say donations are encouraged. For more information, visit renewlots.org.