Auburndale, Queens

Auburndale's median recorded construction year lands exactly on 1945, the start of the postwar building boom in these records, and 54% of its building stock went up somewhere in that 1945-to-1975 window. Only 27% of the neighborhood's buildings predate 1940, and just 4% have gone up since 2000, a profile that places most of Auburndale's growth in the middle of the twentieth century rather than before or after it, a contrast with the deeply prewar profile recorded in some southeast Queens neighborhoods nearby. Few of the neighborhoods in this set show a median construction year that lines up so precisely with the start of a defined building era.

Building-class records show 68% one-family homes, 23% two-family homes, and 4% class C walk-up apartment buildings, across roughly 8,600 tax lots. Land-use coding confirms the one- and two-family character: 90% of lots carry that designation, with 4% multi-family walk-up and 2% commercial and office use. 96% of all lots carry a residential designation of some kind, holding 13,177 units, and the recorded median building height is 2 stories, with no building tall enough to register above 0% at the 6-floor mark these records track.

Development records show 82% of lots carrying unused floor-area capacity against current district rules, with a median residual of 0.3 FAR. The federal flood map and the historic-district layer are both silent on this footprint; 0% coverage is recorded for each. Lot sizes here run to a median of 3,825 square feet, with the 90th percentile reaching 5,000 square feet, consistent with the low-rise, one- and two-family character the land-use and building-class figures both describe.

Auburndale sits among a ring of similarly built Flushing-area neighborhoods on record: Bayside, Bay Terrace-Clearview, East Flushing, Fresh Meadows-Utopia, Murray Hill-Broadway Flushing, and Queensboro Hill, each worth comparing at the same tax-lot detail, since several carry a similar postwar-heavy construction timeline of their own. Per-parcel figures behind these neighborhood aggregates, down to building class and lot size for any individual address, are available through PearlAudit's records lookup.

The overall picture these records describe is a neighborhood built in a single concentrated era rather than across a long span, one where the postwar boom did most of the work, and where later decades, including everything built since 2000, added comparatively little to what already stood. That timeline, paired with a lot base that's 96% residential and carries no recorded flood or historic-district exposure, describes a settled, low-rise neighborhood whose main variable on file is when its buildings went up rather than what kind of buildings they are.