Windsor Terrace-South Slope, Brooklyn
Zoning and property records for the Windsor Terrace-South Slope neighborhood.
Windsor Terrace-South Slope's tax-lot records describe one of the most low-rise, small-scale neighborhoods in this batch: 66% of lots carry a one- or two-family land-use designation, and the roughly 3,300 recorded tax lots hold a combined 12,940 units — among the smallest totals profiled here. 96% of lots are residential, at a median height of 2 stories, and 90% of the building stock predates 1940.
Windsor Terrace-South Slope: what the records show
Windsor Terrace-South Slope's roughly 3,300 tax lots are among the fewest in this batch, and the land-use record backs up the low-rise impression: 66% of lots carry a one- or two-family designation, with multi-family walk-up use recorded on another 21%. Two-family homes lead the building-class mix at 45%, ahead of one-family homes at 22% and walk-up apartment buildings at 20% — a markedly lower-density record than neighboring Park Slope's, despite the two neighborhoods sharing a border. Together, the land-use and building-class figures describe a neighborhood whose lot-by-lot record has stayed close to its original rowhouse form rather than shifting toward the larger apartment buildings recorded on some of the nearby pages.
96% of lots here are recorded as residential — tied for the highest share in this set of pages — holding a combined 12,940 units, the smallest unit total among the neighborhoods covered so far. Heights stay low across the board: a median of 2 stories, with none recorded above 6, consistent with the rowhouse fabric extending south toward Kensington and Flatbush (West)-Ditmas Park-Parkville, both of which border the neighborhood directly. That combination of a small lot count, a small unit total, and an almost entirely residential land-use record describes one of the more compact, single-purpose tax-lot bases in this batch.
The building stock skews old: a median construction year of 1910, with 90% of recorded buildings predating 1940 and just 4% from 2000 or later. Only 3% dates to the 1945-to-1975 postwar boom. 1% of lots fall within a recorded historic district, a far smaller share than in neighboring Park Slope or Carroll Gardens-Cobble Hill-Gowanus-Red Hook, despite a comparably old median building year — a reminder that age and formal historic-district status don't always track together on the tax-lot record.
None of Windsor Terrace-South Slope's lots are mapped inside the federal flood zone on current data (0%). Lots run a median of 1,967 square feet, reaching 3,200 square feet on the bigger lots — a narrower size range than several of the other pages in this batch, consistent with a neighborhood built on a fairly uniform street grid rather than around a handful of unusually large sites.
76% of lots here carry recorded floor area below their district allowance, with a median residual of 0.5 FAR — moderate room by the numbers, on a small, low-rise, almost entirely residential tax-lot base that has changed little since the early twentieth century. Set against Park Slope and Carroll Gardens-Cobble Hill-Gowanus-Red Hook, both of which run older and denser on several measures, Windsor Terrace-South Slope's record reads as the more modestly scaled of the three.
Common zoning districts in Windsor Terrace-South Slope
Notable lots in Windsor Terrace-South Slope
- 11 Ocean Parkway — R8A, 46,538 sq ft lot, built 2022
- 1601 8 Avenue — R6B, 82,766 sq ft lot, built 1980
- 72 Caton Place — C8-2, 20,751 sq ft lot, built 2019
- 23 Caton Place — R7A, 22,500 sq ft lot, built 2005
- 263 Prospect Avenue — R6B, 70,847 sq ft lot, built 2024
- 555 4 Avenue — R8A, 14,400 sq ft lot, built 2018
- 57 Caton Place — R7A, 23,436 sq ft lot, built 2022
- 829 Greenwood Avenue — R5B, 56,719 sq ft lot, built 1982
- 575 4th Avenue — R6B, 17,421 sq ft lot, built 2018
- 347 Coney Island Avenue — C8-2, 17,325 sq ft lot, built 2006
- 651 Vanderbilt Street — R5B, 45,150 sq ft lot, built 1963
- 221 Mcdonald Avenue — R5, 57,891 sq ft lot, built 1953
Windsor Terrace-South Slope — quick questions
- How much of Windsor Terrace-South Slope is zoned for one- and two-family use?
- 66% of recorded tax lots carry a one- or two-family land-use designation, among the highest shares in this batch.
- How many housing units are recorded in Windsor Terrace-South Slope?
- A combined 12,940 units across the neighborhood's roughly 3,300 tax lots, on the 96% of lots recorded as residential.
- Is Windsor Terrace-South Slope in a mapped flood zone?
- No — 0% of its tax lots are mapped inside the federal flood zone on current data.
- How old are the buildings in Windsor Terrace-South Slope?
- The median recorded building dates to 1910, and 90% of the stock predates 1940.
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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.