Inwood, Manhattan

Inwood's tax-lot records describe a small neighborhood built on large parcels: roughly 550 lots in total, the fewest of any neighborhood in this set, but a median lot size of 10,000 square feet — with the largest holdings reaching up to 24,000 square feet. Fewer, bigger lots is a different shape than the small-parcel density found across much of the rest of upper Manhattan, where median lot sizes tend to run well under half of what's typical here. That scale carries through to how the neighborhood reads on the tax map: whole blocks here are built from a handful of large holdings rather than dozens of narrow rowhouse-width lots.

The recorded building stock is mostly prewar: a median construction year of 1927, with 74% of buildings predating 1940. 12% date to the 1945-1975 postwar boom, and 5% have gone up since 2000 — more recent construction, proportionally, than in the neighborhood immediately to its south, though still a modest share of the total recorded stock. Taken together, the age figures describe a neighborhood built mostly in a single early-twentieth-century wave, with only light additions since.

Multi-family walk-up buildings account for 34% of the land-use mix, with mixed residential-and-commercial parcels at 17% and multi-family elevator buildings at 13%. The building-class mix runs 43% walk-up apartment structures, 18% elevator apartment buildings, and 10% falling into another recorded building class. Height on record holds to a median of 5 stories, with 5% of buildings recorded above 6 floors — modest given the larger average lot footprint described above, and a sign that the large parcels here have mostly been built up rather than out.

6% of lots sit inside the federally mapped flood zone, and 3% fall within a designated historic district — both regulatory-record facts rather than claims about any specific parcel's history. 74% of lots carry recorded floor area below the current allowance, with a median residual of 0.8 FAR points on those lots — meaningful recorded headroom relative to the neighborhood's size, and a wider margin than the built-out profile recorded just across the neighborhood line to the south. 67% of lots are classified as residential, carrying 18,148 units in total, a smaller total than several of the denser neighborhoods in this set despite the larger individual lots.

PearlAudit's records resolve each of these figures to a specific parcel rather than the neighborhood-wide average. Inwood borders Washington Heights (North) to the south, a neighborhood whose recorded lot sizes and building ages read quite differently despite the shared edge.