Sunset Park (West), Brooklyn

Where several neighborhoods in this batch are dominated by a single land-use category, Sunset Park (West)'s roughly 5,700 tax lots split more evenly: 38% one- and two-family use, 30% multi-family walk-up use, and 12% mixed residential-commercial use — a higher mixed-use share than in most of the surrounding blocks. Building classes echo that blend: 34% two-family homes, 30% walk-up apartment buildings, and 9% mixed residential-commercial buildings, a distribution with no single category clearly dominant. That balance across land-use and building-class categories distinguishes the neighborhood from more uniformly single-purpose pages elsewhere in this batch.

The construction record leans prewar but not overwhelmingly so: a median building year of 1911, with 85% of the stock predating 1940, 5% from the 1945-to-1975 postwar boom, and 6% built since 2000. Heights stay low, at a median of 2 stories, with 1% of buildings recorded above 6 — a taller pocket than in neighboring Windsor Terrace-South Slope, though still a small share of the overall record. The combination of a mostly prewar base with a small, steady trickle of both postwar and recent construction describes a neighborhood that has kept adding to its building stock in small increments across nearly every decade on record.

81% of lots are recorded as residential, holding a combined 21,009 units. 6% of lots fall within a recorded historic district, and 1% are mapped inside the federal flood zone on current data — a statement about the regulatory map, not about risk on the ground, toward the waterfront shared with Bay Ridge to the south. The historic-district and flood figures both sit toward the modest end of the range recorded across this batch of neighborhood pages.

Lots run a median of 2,003 square feet, reaching 5,017 square feet on the largest recorded parcels — a wider spread than in the smaller, more uniform lots nearby toward Carroll Gardens-Cobble Hill-Gowanus-Red Hook. That spread lines up with the neighborhood's mixed land-use record, where larger commercial and mixed-use parcels sit alongside smaller residential lots on the same tax-lot base.

82% of Sunset Park (West)'s lots carry recorded floor area below their district allowance, with a median residual of 0.6 FAR — a broader margin than either Sunset Park (Central) or Windsor Terrace-South Slope shows on its own page, on a tax-lot base whose land-use mix runs more blended than most of the pages surrounding it. Taken together, the headroom, land-use, and building-class figures describe a neighborhood still holding a wider range of permitted uses than its more uniformly residential neighbors.