East New York-New Lots, Brooklyn

East New York-New Lots stands apart from its immediate neighbors on one measure in particular: 19% of its recorded stock was built during the 1945-to-1975 postwar boom, the largest such share among the pages in this batch, at a time when several nearby East New York sections show a much thinner postwar layer. Add 54% predating 1940 and 18% built since 2000, and the record describes construction spread across three distinct waves rather than concentrated in one. The median building dates to 1930, on roughly 5,700 tax lots bordered by East New York-City Line and East New York (North) to the north and Canarsie and Spring Creek-Starrett City to the south, each contributing a different construction-era mix to the wider area.

The land-use mix runs 57% one- and two-family use, 25% multi-family walk-up use, and 4% mixed residential-commercial use. Building classes show two-family homes at 36%, walk-up apartment buildings at 25%, and one-family homes at 20%, with a median height of 2 stories and none recorded above 6. That combination of a majority one- and two-family land-use pattern with a full quarter of lots in multi-family walk-up use describes a denser mix than some of the more uniformly low-rise pages elsewhere in the borough, without tipping into the taller building classes recorded closer to the waterfront, and it sits between the more single-family-dominant record on some neighboring pages and the more mixed profile recorded on others.

86% of lots here are recorded as residential, holding a combined 29,187 units — among the larger unit totals in this set of neighborhood pages. Lots run a median of 2,134 square feet, reaching as high as 4,342 square feet on the larger parcels, a modestly wider spread than in neighboring East New York (North), reflecting a slightly less uniform lot pattern overall.

92% of lots carry recorded floor area below their district allowance, with a median residual of 0.9 FAR. None of the neighborhood's lots are mapped inside the federal flood zone (0%) or recorded within a historic district (0%) on current data — statements about the map's coverage, not about the ground it describes.

Between the three East New York pages in this batch, New Lots records the deepest layer of postwar-era construction and the largest recorded unit count, while its prewar share sits meaningfully lower than either of its immediate neighbors — a distinction the underlying tax-lot data draws clearly even though all three sections sit along the same stretch of the borough and share a broadly similar land-use pattern, block for block.