College Point, Queens

College Point's flood exposure stands out in this part of Queens: 11% of its lots are recorded inside the federally mapped flood zone, a statement about the current regulatory map rather than a claim about water reaching any particular lot. Alongside that, 14% of the neighborhood's building stock has gone up since 2000, and 5% of land-use records still show vacant land — together describing a waterfront-adjacent neighborhood that is still filling in rather than one whose built fabric was settled decades ago and left alone. Few other neighborhoods in this file combine an active recent-construction figure with a nonzero flood share the way College Point's records do.

Building-class records here are led by two-family homes at 40%, ahead of one-family homes at 35% and walk-up apartment buildings at 7%. Land-use records show 76% of lots coded one- and two-family and 7% multi-family walk-up, with 86% of College Point's roughly 6,100 tax lots carrying a residential classification and 11,136 units recorded in total. That two-family lead, ahead of one-family homes rather than behind them, is not the typical pattern among the low-rise neighborhoods covered in this file, most of which show one-family homes clearly out front, and it is one of only a few in this batch where the ranking flips this way.

The neighborhood's age profile centers on the postwar period: the median building dates to 1950, with 44% of the stock recorded before 1940 and 33% built during the 1945-to-1975 boom. Lots run to a median of 2,975 square feet, with larger parcels reaching up to 7,906 square feet or more, and recorded heights stay low at a median of 2 stories, with 0% of the stock rising above six stories despite the more active recent-construction figures noted above — new construction here has added to the same low-rise scale rather than changing it.

Development headroom is broad: 76% of lots carry a recorded floor-area allowance above what's currently built, with a median residual of 0.3 FAR, a sizable cushion even accounting for the vacant-land share already noted. None of College Point's lots sit inside a mapped historic district. The neighborhood borders Flushing-Willets Point, Murray Hill-Broadway Flushing, and Whitestone-Beechhurst, each carrying a different flood and construction profile in the same tax-lot records, so a search for any one of the four turns up a distinct set of figures rather than a repeat of College Point's own — Flushing-Willets Point in particular carries a considerably higher recorded flood share of its own.