East Flatbush-Farragut, Brooklyn

Farragut's tax-lot records describe one of the more single-family-oriented profiles in this batch: 81% of recorded land use is one- and two-family, and building-class records back that up, with 48% of buildings recorded as one-family and another 34% as two-family homes. Walk-up apartment buildings make up just 9% of the class mix, and land use records multi-family walk-up use on another 9% of parcels alongside mixed residential and commercial use on just 2%. It is a neighborhood whose built form, on this evidence, was set for house-scale living rather than the walk-up and elevator-building pattern found in denser parts of Brooklyn.

Construction dates cluster in the prewar era: the median building here dates to 1930, and 75% of the recorded stock predates 1940. The postwar boom years of 1945 to 1975 added 9% of the buildings on file, while construction since 2000 accounts for just 3%. Little on record suggests the building stock has turned over meaningfully since the prewar period.

Zoning headroom exists but runs narrow: 74% of lots carry some unused floor-area capacity on record, yet the median residual FAR is just 0.3. The combination — most lots technically under their allowance, but by a narrow residual-FAR margin — describes a neighborhood built close to what its zoning already permits. Height stays uniformly low, with a median of 2 stories and 0% of buildings recorded above 6 stories. That narrow residual-FAR figure means most of Farragut's recorded headroom exists in small increments rather than large blocks of unused capacity.

Lots run a median of 2,000 square feet, with a 90th percentile of 4,000 square feet. 93% of parcels carry a residential designation, and the roll counts 13,458 housing units. No lots here are mapped inside a federal flood hazard area on record. Farragut borders East Flatbush-Erasmus, East Flatbush-Rugby, Flatbush, and Flatlands. The districts governing the neighborhood are low- to moderate-density residential categories, bordering a manufacturing-zoned strip at one edge.

One-family and two-family buildings together account for well over three-quarters of Farragut's recorded building stock — house-scale categories that, in the city's classification, mean standalone and two-unit homes. Walk-up buildings make up the remainder of the three leading classes, a distant third behind the two house-scale types, consistent with the 81% one- and two-family land-use share cited above. On the whole, the records describe a neighborhood whose built form matched its zoning early and has changed only modestly since.