Bayside, Queens

Bayside's tax lots run larger than many of the Queens neighborhoods profiled alongside it: a median of 4,000 square feet, reaching 6,000 square feet at the 90th percentile, across roughly 8,600 parcels. The construction-year record centers on 1950, with 55% of buildings dated to the 1945-to-1975 postwar boom and 27% predating 1940, a profile in roughly the same range as some of its neighbors, though Bayside's 6% since-2000 share runs a touch higher than the quieter recent-construction figures recorded in some nearby footprints. Together, the lot-size and construction-year figures describe a neighborhood built out steadily across the middle of the twentieth century rather than in one sharp burst.

Building-class records show 67% one-family homes, 22% two-family homes, and 4% class C walk-up apartment buildings. Land-use coding shows 89% of lots as one- and two-family residential, with 4% multi-family walk-up and 2% commercial and office use. 95% of all lots carry a residential designation, holding 14,090 units, a sizable count relative to the parcel base, and buildings here typically rise 2 stories, with no recorded building tall enough to register above 0% at the 6-floor mark these records track. The small share of class C walk-up buildings is enough to register on file without meaningfully changing the neighborhood's overwhelmingly low-rise, one- and two-family character.

Development records show 83% of lots carrying unused floor-area capacity against current district rules, with a median residual of 0.3 FAR. Both the flood map and the historic-district layer show 0% coverage here, a fact about the current maps rather than a claim about the ground itself. That combination, sizable lots, a wide majority carrying unused capacity, and no mapped flood or historic-district constraint, describes a fairly unconstrained recorded footprint compared with several of its neighbors, at least as the current regulatory layers record it.

Bayside borders Auburndale, Bay Terrace-Clearview, and Oakland Gardens-Hollis Hills on record, each with its own construction-year and lot-size profile worth comparing at the same tax-lot detail. Zoning across most of Bayside's recorded lots runs to low-rise, one- and two-family districts, matching the building-class mix and the consistent low median building height found across the footprint.

Between the larger recorded lot sizes, the postwar-centered construction timeline, and the wide share of parcels still carrying unused floor-area capacity, Bayside's tax-lot file describes a neighborhood with more room on paper than its fully built-out one-family and two-family streetscape might suggest at first glance, according to the current record.