Crown Heights (North), Brooklyn

Crown Heights (North)'s tax-lot records carry 39,987 housing units, the largest total among the neighborhoods profiled in this set, spread across roughly 6,300 lots. That density sits alongside a land-use mix weighted toward multi-family walk-up buildings, 39% of lots, with one- and two-family use close behind at 36%, and mixed residential-commercial use at 12%, a combination that puts a large resident population on a comparatively moderate lot count. The building-class breakdown mirrors that pattern: walk-up apartment buildings make up 39% of the stock, two-family homes 31%, and mixed residential-commercial buildings 9%, a mix that leans toward rental housing more than most of its neighbors. That land-use split, walk-up buildings edging out one- and two-family homes by a narrow margin, is one of the more balanced mixes recorded in this set, rather than one category running away from the rest.

89% of buildings on record predate 1940, and the median construction year sits at 1910, tied for one of the earliest medians in this set. Just 1% of the stock dates to the postwar-boom stretch between 1945 and 1975, while 9% has gone up since 2000, one of the higher recent-construction shares in this batch, even against a fabric this thoroughly prewar. 27% of lots sit inside a designated historic district, protecting a meaningful share of that older stock from as-of-right replacement, a larger protected share than in several of the neighborhood's immediate neighbors. That combination of an old median year and a comparatively large historic-district share suggests the neighborhood's older blocks have both aged in place and been formally protected from replacement.

83% of lots here carry recorded floor area under their district's ceiling, at a median gap of 0.9 FAR, among the deeper unused-capacity figures in this set. Height stays moderate: the median building rises to 3 stories, and 1% of buildings on record exceed six floors. Lot sizes run a median of 2,236 square feet, with the largest recorded parcels reaching 5,492 square feet, a moderate spread suggesting fairly uniform lot dimensions across most of the neighborhood's blocks. For owners, that median gap translates into real but not dramatic room to add floor area without a zoning change, a pattern that recurs across much of the geography covered in this set.

90% of lots are recorded as residential. The neighborhood's lots carry a 0% flood designation on record: none sit inside a federally mapped hazard zone, a statement of current map coverage rather than a guarantee about water history. Crown Heights (North) borders Bedford-Stuyvesant, Clinton Hill, Prospect Heights, Crown Heights (South), Brownsville, and Ocean Hill, the largest set of adjoining sections in this batch, each with its own parcel-level record, its own construction era, and its own share of unused development capacity. That breadth of adjoining sections places Crown Heights (North) near the geographic center of this batch, bordering both older prewar blocks and newer construction pockets at once.