Astoria (East)-Woodside (North), Queens

More of Astoria (East)-Woodside (North)'s building stock dates to the postwar boom than in most of the neighborhoods profiled alongside it, Manhattan or Queens: 27% of recorded buildings went up between 1945 and 1975. That sits next to a still-dominant prewar base of 58%, with a median construction year of 1930, and only 4% built since 2000 — a much thinner recent-construction layer than in some of the waterfront-adjacent neighborhoods nearby. The result is a neighborhood whose recorded age profile is split fairly evenly between an older prewar core and a mid-century wave, without much of either an original founding era or a recent rebuilding push standing out further. That two-era split is a different shape from neighborhoods where one construction period simply dominates the record.

Multi-family walk-up buildings lead the land-use mix at 40%, ahead of one- and two-family homes at 37% and mixed residential-and-commercial parcels at 10%. The building-class mix runs 41% walk-up apartment structures, 23% two-family homes, and 13% one-family homes. Height on record holds to a median of 2 stories, with 0% of buildings recorded above 6 floors, keeping the neighborhood firmly low-rise despite its comparatively large postwar share — a reminder that a postwar-boom construction date doesn't necessarily mean taller construction, at least on this record.

0% of lots are recorded inside the federally mapped flood zone, and none fall within a designated historic district — both statements about the regulatory record rather than a claim that the ground itself is risk-free. 86% of lots are classified as residential, carrying 19,361 units across the neighborhood's roughly 4,500 tax lots, one of the larger recorded lot counts among the neighborhoods profiled here. That scale, combined with the absence of any recorded historic-district coverage, means most additions on these lots would face zoning review alone.

74% of lots carry recorded floor area below the current allowance, with a median residual of 0.5 FAR points on those lots, spread across a median lot size of 2,500 square feet and an upper range reaching 4,646 square feet — recorded headroom distributed across a large number of similarly sized parcels rather than concentrated in a few. PearlAudit's per-lot records show how an individual parcel compares to these neighborhood-wide figures, since a specific address's residual can run well above or below the median depending on what's already built there. Astoria (East)-Woodside (North) borders Astoria (Central), Astoria (North)-Ditmars-Steinway, Jackson Heights, Queensbridge-Ravenswood-Dutch Kills, and Woodside, each carrying its own distinct recorded balance of prewar and postwar construction.