Bushwick (East), Brooklyn

90% of Bushwick (East)'s roughly 6,400 tax lots carry more permitted floor area than their buildings currently use, and the median gap runs to 0.9 FAR — a headroom figure among the highest recorded in this set of neighborhood pages. The district framework layered over these blocks, combined with a land-use mix that is 45% one- and two-family use and 40% multi-family walk-up use, sets the ceiling; the tax-lot record shows how much of it sits unclaimed rather than what any given owner intends to do with it. A residual this wide, spread across nearly all of the neighborhood's lots, describes the distance between what current buildings occupy and what the district framework would allow on paper, not a forecast of what gets built next.

The typical building here dates to 1915, and the stock leans decisively prewar: 78% of recorded buildings predate 1940. Construction during the 1945-to-1975 postwar boom accounts for just 1% of the record, and building since 2000 accounts for 14% — a modest but real share of newer additions layered onto a fabric that is still, on the numbers, mostly original. That mix of an old base and a thin but present layer of recent construction runs along the neighborhood's border with Bedford-Stuyvesant (East) and Bushwick (West), two sections whose own tax-lot pages describe broadly similar prewar cores, each with its own construction timeline and building-class mix.

By building class, two-family homes make up 43% of the stock and walk-up apartment buildings 39%, with mixed residential-commercial buildings recorded on another 6% of lots. Heights track that low-rise character: a median of 2.8 stories, and not one recorded building tall enough to register in the over-6-story column (0%). The land-use record shows mixed residential-commercial use on 7% of lots — a modest commercial presence layered into an otherwise residential grid, and the near-total absence of taller buildings on record reflects a district framework that has kept heights consistently low across generations of ownership turnover.

92% of Bushwick (East)'s lots are recorded as residential in use, holding a combined 25,185 units. None of the neighborhood's lots are mapped inside the federal flood zone (0%) or recorded within a historic district (0%) — both statements about coverage on the current maps, not about the ground itself or about any character that isn't formally designated. That distinction matters for anyone reading these figures literally: an absent flood or historic designation describes what the current maps say today, not a permanent condition of the land.

Lot sizes run small and consistent: a median of 2,000 square feet, climbing to 2,750 square feet at the upper end of the range. Combined with the headroom figures above, the record describes a neighborhood built out at a consistent scale generations ago, with an uneven amount of recorded floor-area capacity still sitting unused lot by lot toward Cypress Hills and Ocean Hill — a pattern the tax-lot data traces block by block rather than as a single uniform figure.