Clinton Hill, Brooklyn

Start with the regulation, because in Clinton Hill it covers more ground than in nearly any neighboring file: 44% of tax lots fall inside designated historic districts. Among the profiled neighborhoods around it, only Fort Greene comes close on landmark coverage, and Clinton Hill exceeds it. That single figure conditions everything else the records say. The neighborhood's 70% share of lots with recorded floor area below the zoning allowance — at a median residual of 0.4 FAR — reads differently when landmark review sits over so much of the map. Paper capacity and buildable capacity are separate questions here, and which one applies changes from block to block, sometimes from lot to lot.

The fabric being protected is uniformly old. 83% of recorded buildings predate 1940, the median year built is 1901, and the later eras barely dented the street wall: the boom years between 1945 and 1975 account for 7% of the stock, and 8% dates from 2000 onward. Walk-up apartment buildings make up 37% of the class mix and two-family homes 28%, with mixed residential-commercial buildings at 8%. The median building stands 3 stories, and only 2% of buildings rise above 6 floors — height is about as rare here as new construction. What the landmarks commission protects, in other words, is not a scattering of monuments but the ordinary fabric itself.

The land works almost entirely for housing: 89% of lots are residential, split between multi-family walk-up parcels at 41% of the land-use mix, one- and two-family buildings at 35%, and mixed residential-commercial parcels at 11%. Lots hold to the rowhouse module, with a median of 2,000 square feet and a ninetieth percentile of 5,625. Altogether the records count 16,061 housing units on roughly 2,300 tax lots — real density achieved without much of anything taller than the trees.

Flood risk, as the federal regulatory map measures it, registers at 0% of lots — Clinton Hill sits inland on high ground, though a mapped zero speaks only to designated flood zones, never to every way water can behave in a storm. The neighborhood's tax-map borders run to Fort Greene, Prospect Heights, Crown Heights, Bedford-Stuyvesant, and South Williamsburg. Each lot in the file carries its own recorded year built, class, lot area, and landmark status; the aggregate on this page is simply the shape those individual records make when stacked together.