Is Fort Greene a landmarked neighborhood?

A large part of it: 40% of tax lots sit inside designated historic districts. Whether a given parcel is covered depends on exact boundaries — a lot-level fact worth confirming before planning any work.

What year were Fort Greene brownstones built?

The median recorded year built is 1901, and 78% of buildings predate 1940. Construction since 2000 amounts to 9% of the stock.

Is Fort Greene at risk of flooding?

On the current federal maps, 0% of its lots fall inside the special flood hazard area. Those maps address regulated flood zones only — surface and drainage flooding sit outside their scope.

How dense is Fort Greene?

The records show 21,654 housing units on roughly 2,100 tax lots at a median height of 3 stories — density carried by rowhouses and walk-ups rather than towers.

Fort Greene, Brooklyn

Zoning and property records for the Fort Greene neighborhood.

Fort Greene's median recorded building dates to 1901 — before the modern zoning code, before most of the subway — and 78% of its stock predates 1940. What the records add is protection: 40% of its roughly 2,100 tax lots sit inside designated historic districts. With 21,654 housing units, a median height of 3 stories, and 0% of lots on the federal flood map, the file describes a finished, guarded rowhouse neighborhood.

Fort Greene: what the records show

Fort Greene was already built when the twentieth century arrived. The median construction year in its records is 1901, 78% of buildings predate 1940, and the boom era between 1945 and 1975 accounts for only 6% of the stock. Even the recent wave that washed over districts to its north largely passed it by, at least as the year-built column tells it: 9% of buildings date from 2000 or later. The physical result is consistent — walk-up apartment buildings at 39% of the class mix, two-family homes at 23%, mixed residential-commercial buildings at 8%, a median height of 3 stories, and just 4% of buildings above 6 floors.

The number that most shapes what happens next is regulatory: 40% of Fort Greene's tax lots fall within designated historic districts. That is landmark review over a large minority of the map, and it changes how the development figures should be read. On paper, 66% of lots show recorded floor area below their zoning allowance, at a median residual of 0.4 FAR; on a protected block, that capacity passes through an additional layer of approval the zoning tables alone do not describe. The two facts — wide headroom, wide protection — sit side by side in the same file.

Land use is straightforwardly residential: 41% of parcels are multi-family walk-ups, 30% hold one- and two-family buildings, and 12% mix residential with commercial, with 84% of lots residential overall and 21,654 housing units on roughly 2,100 tax lots. The lots are compact and even, at a median of 2,000 square feet with a ninetieth percentile of 5,183 — the geometry of a grid platted and filled long before the automobile had a vote. Nothing in the mix suggests a neighborhood in flux; the shares describe the same rowhouse fabric the age columns do, held steady at every scale the records measure.

The federal flood map records 0% of Fort Greene's lots inside the special flood hazard area — an inland, elevated reading on the current regulatory maps, not a blanket promise about water, since drainage and surface flooding sit outside the map's scope. Fort Greene borders Clinton Hill, Prospect Heights, Park Slope, the Downtown Brooklyn-DUMBO-Boerum Hill district, and South Williamsburg. Per-lot detail for any address here — including which side of a historic-district boundary a parcel sits on — is part of the public record PearlAudit assembles.

Common zoning districts in Fort Greene

R6B — 1,214 lots
M1-2 — 212 lots
R7-2 — 166 lots
R7A — 166 lots
R5B — 153 lots

Notable lots in Fort Greene

625 Fulton Street — C6-4, 58,792 sq ft lot, built 2022
139 Flatbush Avenue — C6-4, 191,713 sq ft lot, built 2003
589 Fulton Street — C6-4.5, 27,530 sq ft lot, built 2023
300 Ashland Place — C6-2, 49,830 sq ft lot, built 2015
625 Atlantic Avenue — C6-4, 164,564 sq ft lot, built 1995
590 Fulton Street — C6-4, 24,697 sq ft lot, built 2015
180 Ashland Place — C6-4, 19,581 sq ft lot, built 2023
39 Hall Street — M1-6A/R8, 113,800 sq ft lot, built 1912
86 Fleet Place — C6-4, 32,923 sq ft lot, built 2015
196 Willoughby Street — R6, 25,990 sq ft lot, built 2019
91 Dekalb Avenue — R6, 28,650 sq ft lot, built 2023
101 Fleet Place — C6-4, 20,502 sq ft lot, built 2023

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Fort Greene — quick questions

Is Fort Greene a landmarked neighborhood?: A large part of it: 40% of tax lots sit inside designated historic districts. Whether a given parcel is covered depends on exact boundaries — a lot-level fact worth confirming before planning any work.
What year were Fort Greene brownstones built?: The median recorded year built is 1901, and 78% of buildings predate 1940. Construction since 2000 amounts to 9% of the stock.
Is Fort Greene at risk of flooding?: On the current federal maps, 0% of its lots fall inside the special flood hazard area. Those maps address regulated flood zones only — surface and drainage flooding sit outside their scope.
How dense is Fort Greene?: The records show 21,654 housing units on roughly 2,100 tax lots at a median height of 3 stories — density carried by rowhouses and walk-ups rather than towers.

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Neighborhood and parcel data: NYC municipal records (Department of City Planning). See our sources and methodology. Data as of 2026-07-11.