Bedford-Stuyvesant (East), Brooklyn

Most neighborhood files show a spread; this one shows a module. In Bedford-Stuyvesant (East), the median tax lot measures 1,958 square feet and the ninetieth percentile only 2,700 — nine lots in ten fit within nearly the same footprint. The uniformity extends upward and outward: a median height of 3 stories, just 1% of buildings above 6 floors, and 93% of lots in residential use, the purest residential share in the surrounding records. This is what a rowhouse district looks like when it survives intact at scale — roughly 9,100 tax lots, holding 41,207 housing units — and nothing in the height, use, or lot columns breaks the pattern for long.

Unusually for north-central Brooklyn, two-family homes are the largest building class here at 43%, ahead of walk-up apartment buildings at 36% — a mirror image of the mix in the neighborhood's western half. One- and two-family parcels likewise lead the land-use table at 48%, with multi-family walk-ups at 37% and mixed residential-commercial parcels at 8%. The age profile is emphatic: 83% of buildings predate 1940 around a median year of 1901, the boom period between 1945 and 1975 contributed a bare 1% of the stock, and 11% dates from 2000 or later — the neighborhood effectively skipped the middle of the twentieth century and picked construction back up only recently.

The zoning ledger runs wide: 81% of lots carry recorded floor area below the district allowance, with a median residual of 0.6 FAR. Historic districts cover 13% of lots, leaving most of that capacity outside landmark review — the protected blocks are the exception here, and the uniformity elsewhere is maintained by the fabric itself rather than by regulation. Whether small, uniform lots can practically use their residual is a separate question; headroom on a 1,958-square-foot lot behaves nothing like headroom on a large parcel, which is precisely why the per-lot records carry more decision weight here than the averages do.

The federal flood map places 0% of lots in the special flood hazard area — a regulatory reading for an inland neighborhood, and silent on drainage flooding, as such maps always are. Bedford-Stuyvesant (East) shares boundaries with its western half, both halves of Bushwick, Ocean Hill, East Williamsburg, and South Williamsburg. The aggregate picture on this page is drawn from NYC municipal records one lot at a time, and PearlAudit keeps the individual parcel files behind it.