Bay Terrace-Clearview, Queens

Bay Terrace-Clearview's records describe a neighborhood built almost entirely in one stretch: 79% of recorded buildings date from the 1945-to-1975 postwar boom, the highest postwar-boom share among the neighborhoods covered in this file, against just 3% recorded before 1940 and another 3% since 2000. The median construction year is 1955, placing the neighborhood's core squarely inside the boom rather than before or after it — close to a mirror image of neighborhoods elsewhere in the file whose stock is overwhelmingly prewar instead. Very little in these records predates the boom or has been added meaningfully since.

Building-class records are led by one-family homes at 56%, with two-family homes at 30% and walk-up apartment buildings at 9%. Land-use records show 86% of lots coded one- and two-family and 9% multi-family walk-up, with 96% of all lots carrying a residential classification and 11,259 units recorded in total across roughly 2,600 tax lots. That land-use mix, almost entirely residential with only a sliver of anything else, matches the single-era construction story rather than complicating it, and the unit total tracks closely with a lot base of this size.

Lots run to a median of 3,977 square feet, with larger parcels reaching up to 5,845 square feet. Heights hold uniformly low, at a median of 2 stories, and 0% of the stock rises above six stories — a flat roofline profile consistent with a neighborhood built out under one set of assumptions about scale rather than accumulating taller buildings in later decades. That combination of a fairly large median lot and a uniformly low building height leaves relatively little visual variation from block to block on paper, an impression reinforced by the tight concentration of construction dates around the same postwar decades.

None of Bay Terrace-Clearview's lots sit inside a mapped historic district, and 0% register inside the federally mapped flood zone on record — again, a statement about the current map rather than about water. Development headroom is the widest in this batch of neighborhoods at 81% of lots, with a median residual of 0.3 FAR, meaning most parcels carry recorded capacity above what's built even after decades of essentially unchanged construction activity. Bay Terrace-Clearview borders Auburndale, Bayside, Murray Hill-Broadway Flushing, and Whitestone-Beechhurst, all profiled separately in the same tax-lot records covering northeast Queens; of those also covered in this file, neither Murray Hill-Broadway Flushing nor Whitestone-Beechhurst comes close to matching its 79% postwar-boom concentration or its 3% prewar share.