Baisley Park, Queens

Baisley Park pairs one of the larger parcel counts in this neighborhood set, roughly 8,700 tax lots, with one of the most uniform land-use profiles on record: 92% of lots are coded strictly one- and two-family residential, matching the concentration recorded in the far smaller Oakland Gardens-Hollis Hills. At this scale, that level of uniformity stands out among the neighborhoods profiled here, since larger parcel counts more often come with a wider mix of land-use codes. Few neighborhoods this size carry so little variation away from one- and two-family use.

Building-class records show 59% one-family homes and 33% two-family homes, with 2% recorded under vacant-land classifications. Land-use coding beyond the 92% one- and two-family share shows 2% vacant land and 2% mixed residential and commercial. 95% of all lots carry a residential designation, holding 13,849 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. That 95% residential share, on top of the 92% one- and two-family land-use figure, leaves only a narrow slice of the neighborhood's lots for anything else.

The construction-year record centers on a median of 1930, with 62% of buildings predating 1940, 23% dated to the 1945-to-1975 postwar boom, and 6% built since 2000. Development records show 88% of lots carrying unused floor-area capacity against current district rules, with a median residual of 0.3 FAR, a meaningful share of unbuilt capacity layered on top of an already uniform, low-rise footprint.

Flood-map and historic-district records both come back at 0% for this footprint too. Lot sizes run to a median of 2,626 square feet, with the 90th percentile reaching 4,080 square feet, a modest spread that matches the neighborhood's otherwise uniform profile. Baisley Park borders South Jamaica, South Ozone Park, Springfield Gardens (North)-Rochdale Village, Springfield Gardens (South)-Brookville, and St. Albans, several of which carry a similarly high one- and two-family land-use share on record.

Between the scale of its parcel base, the consistency of its land-use coding, and a wide majority of lots still carrying unused floor-area capacity, Baisley Park's tax-lot file describes a neighborhood that is both larger and more uniformly built than most of its southeast Queens neighbors, at least by the numbers currently on file. That combination of scale and uniformity carries through to the neighborhood's construction-year record as well, which skews prewar without the sharper postwar or since-2000 spikes recorded elsewhere in this batch.