Brownsville, Brooklyn

Brownsville's recorded zoning capacity stands out in this data set: 93% of the roughly 4,300 tax lots carry floor area below their district allowance, and the median gap runs to 1.6 FAR. A residual FAR of this size, spread across nearly the whole lot count, describes substantial recorded distance between built floor area and district maximum. That headroom sits alongside a building stock that is neither uniformly old nor new: the median construction year is 1935, with 50% of buildings predating 1940 and 12% built since 2000. Read together, the file describes existing structures well below what current zoning would allow on the same lots, without saying anything about what will or will not be built there.

Building-class records here split fairly evenly across three categories: one-family buildings at 33%, two-family homes at 22%, and walk-up apartment buildings also at 22%. Land use leans toward the smaller-scale end, with 56% of parcels recorded as one- and two-family use, 21% as multi-family walk-up, and 8% as mixed residential and commercial. Height stays low across the neighborhood, with a median of 2 stories and just 1% of buildings recorded above 6 stories. No single building class dominates outright here; the roll instead shows a fairly even split across the three most common categories.

Lots run a median of 2,300 square feet, with the 90th percentile reaching 5,000 square feet. 85% of parcels carry a residential designation, and the roll counts 25,725 housing units. None of Brownsville's lots are mapped inside a federal flood hazard area or a recorded historic district — 0% for both, statements about the current federal map and landmark rolls rather than about the neighborhood's history.

Brownsville borders Crown Heights (North), East Flatbush-Remsen Village, East New York (North), East New York-New Lots, and Ocean Hill. The districts that govern most of the neighborhood allow low- to moderate-density residential construction, with local commercial corridors and a manufacturing-zoned strip running along its edges. Every lot behind the headroom figure above carries its own recorded floor area, lot size, and building class in the underlying property file.

The 25,725 housing units on Brownsville's roll sit across roughly 4,300 lots of varying scale, from single-family houses to the walk-up buildings recorded above. Building-class and land-use figures alike show no single category running away with the total — a genuinely mixed roll on this evidence, rather than a one-note one. Behind each percentage sits an individual lot record — building class, land use, recorded floor area — available on a lot-by-lot basis.