Cambria Heights, Queens

Cambria Heights' tax-lot records show no buildings dated 2000 or later at all — a flat 0% recent-construction share, the only such reading in this cluster of neighborhoods. The median building on record went up in 1945, with 61% of the stock built during the 1945-to-1975 postwar boom and 21% predating 1940, meaning virtually the entire recorded building stock here is at least a few decades old, with nothing on file to mark a modern-era addition. That pairing — a settled postwar-and-earlier stock with nothing added since — sets Cambria Heights apart from several neighboring files that show at least some construction dated to the current century.

Residential use covers 98% of lots here, the highest concentration among the neighborhoods profiled in this section of Queens, and land-use records show 97% of lots classified as one- and two-family use, with 1% commercial and office and a further 1% under another recorded land-use classification. The roughly 5,300 parcels carry 6,062 housing units on record, a unit count consistent with a neighborhood built almost entirely of one- and two-family houses. Read against its neighbors, that residential concentration and near-total one- and two-family land use describe one of the more single-purpose building files in this cluster.

One-family homes make up 86% of recorded building classifications, two-family homes 11%, and a further 1% falls under another recorded building classification. Lots run to a median of 4,000 square feet, but even its larger lots top out at just 4,397 square feet — the tightest lot ceiling recorded in this cluster, meaning even its larger parcels stay close to the median rather than spreading wide. Building heights hold at a median of 1.8 stories, and 2% of lots fall inside a designated historic district, a small but nonzero share compared with most of its neighbors.

92% of lots in Cambria Heights carry recorded floor area below their current district allowance, with a median residual of 0.4 FAR. Federal flood mapping shows 0% of Cambria Heights lots inside the mapped floodplain, a statement about the current map rather than the land's history.

The neighborhood sits between Laurelton, Queens Village, Rosedale, and St. Albans, each carrying a different construction-era mix in this same data set — Rosedale and Laurelton both show a meaningfully higher share of buildings dated 2000 or later than the flat 0% recorded here, while St. Albans carries the historic-district distinction noted above.