East Flatbush-Rugby, Brooklyn

Rugby's tax-lot records lean toward two-family housing more than any single category: 41% of buildings are recorded as two-family homes, with one-family homes at 29% and walk-up apartment buildings at 18%. Land use follows a similar shape, with 70% of parcels recorded as one- and two-family use, 18% as multi-family walk-up, and 6% as mixed residential and commercial. That combination — a two-family plurality alongside a large one- and two-family land-use share — describes a neighborhood of modestly scaled, mostly low-rise houses.

Construction here spans two visible eras: a median building year of 1930, with 66% of the recorded stock predating 1940, and a postwar-boom share of 17% for buildings raised between 1945 and 1975. Construction since 2000 makes up just 3% of the file. The prewar and postwar-boom shares together account for most of what stands on the roll today, leaving relatively little from the decades in between or since. That two-era pattern — a large prewar base topped by a smaller postwar-boom layer — describes how most of Rugby's building stock arrived in two distinct pushes rather than steadily over time.

Zoning headroom covers 83% of lots, with a median residual FAR of 0.6. A residual FAR in this range describes a moderate, recorded cushion between built floor area and the district's maximum, on paper only. Height sits low across the neighborhood, with a median of 2 stories and 0% of buildings recorded above 6 stories. Lots run a median of 2,100 square feet, reaching 4,000 square feet at the 90th percentile.

94% of parcels carry a residential designation, and the roll counts 15,054 housing units. No lots here are mapped inside a federal flood hazard area or a recorded historic district. Rugby borders Canarsie, Crown Heights (South), East Flatbush-Erasmus, East Flatbush-Farragut, East Flatbush-Remsen Village, Flatlands, and Prospect Lefferts Gardens-Wingate — seven bordering neighborhoods, each with its own recorded age and density mix. The districts governing Rugby are low- to moderate-density apartment-house categories, consistent with the two-family and walk-up mix the building-class records show.

Two-family and one-family buildings — two-unit houses and standalone houses, in the city's classification — cover more than two-thirds of Rugby's recorded stock between them. Walk-up buildings round out the top three, well behind both house-scale categories, consistent with the 70% one- and two-family land-use share recorded for these lots. Read alongside the neighborhood's postwar-boom share, that class mix suggests Rugby's two-family stock arrived across both the prewar and midcentury periods rather than in a single wave.