Spring Creek-Starrett City, Brooklyn

Spring Creek-Starrett City is the newest neighborhood on record in this set by a wide margin. The median building dates to 2011, 91% of the recorded stock has been built since 2000, and 0% predates 1940 — a construction profile with almost nothing in common with the prewar rowhouse blocks that dominate most of the surrounding borough pages, including neighboring East New York-New Lots and East New York-City Line, both of which record their median building years many decades earlier.

Scale here runs differently too. Across roughly 670 tax lots — a small count compared with most neighborhoods in this batch — lot sizes reach 59,853 square feet on the largest parcels recorded, against a median of 2,300 square feet, describing a mix of ordinary residential parcels alongside a handful of very large sites. 4% of recorded buildings rise above 6 stories, a share higher than in any other neighborhood covered in this batch, pairing an otherwise ordinary median lot size with a small number of exceptionally large, taller developments that pull the upper end of both figures well past what's typical nearby.

The land-use record is 71% one- and two-family use and 11% multi-family walk-up use, with 6% recorded as vacant land — a nonzero vacant-land share that stands out against the fully built-out pages nearby. Building classes lean toward one-family homes at 46% and two-family homes at 24%, with walk-up apartment buildings at 10%. 86% of lots are recorded as residential, holding a combined 15,828 units, a sizable total given the neighborhood's comparatively small lot count and a further sign of how much of its housing sits in large, multi-unit developments rather than small individual parcels.

3% of Spring Creek-Starrett City's lots are mapped inside the federal flood zone — a small but real share on the current map, toward the water near Howard Beach-Lindenwood across the Queens border. 91% of lots show unused floor-area capacity against their district allowance, at a median residual of 1.6 FAR, the largest gap recorded in this batch. No lots here fall within a recorded historic district (0%).

Set against Canarsie and the two East New York pages to its north and west, Spring Creek-Starrett City's tax-lot record reads as a distinct, much newer layer of development — smaller in lot count, larger in typical parcel size, and built almost entirely within the current century, in a section of the borough otherwise defined by construction that mostly predates the modern zoning code.