Corona, Queens

Corona's land-use record runs toward apartment buildings rather than houses: multi-family walk-up use is recorded on 48% of lots, the largest single category, ahead of one- and two-family use at 35% and mixed residential-commercial use at 8%. Building-class records land in almost exactly the same place — walk-up apartment buildings account for 48% of lots, two-family buildings for 27%, and one-family homes for a comparatively small 8%. The neighborhood borders Elmhurst, North Corona, Jackson Heights, Rego Park, and Forest Hills. That matching 48% figure across both the land-use and building-class records is a rare instance in this file of two independently recorded categories landing on the same number.

Overall, 92% of Corona's roughly 4,700 tax lots are classed as residential, holding 21,572 recorded units. The median building here dates to 1931, and 53% of the stock predates 1940. Postwar-boom construction, from 1945 to 1975, accounts for 24% of buildings, and 14% of the recorded stock has gone up since 2000 — a steady trickle of newer construction layered onto a mostly prewar and midcentury base. That steady spread across three building eras, rather than a single dominant one, describes ongoing turnover in the parcel record rather than a neighborhood frozen at one point in time, with the 14% since-2000 share notably higher than the 24% recorded for the postwar-boom years.

Buildings run a median of 2.5 stories, with 1% of recorded buildings rising above 6 floors. None of Corona's parcels are recorded inside a federally mapped flood zone or a historic district. Lot sizes stay tight, with a median of 2,400 square feet and even the largest lots on record reaching only 3,750 square feet, a narrow range from median to top that matches the neighborhood's walk-up-dominated building-class record. That tight lot-size spread is consistent with apartment buildings occupying standard-sized parcels rather than larger assembled sites, and a similarly narrow spread shows up in the height record, where almost no buildings rise far above the 2.5-story median.

Recorded floor-area headroom covers 77% of Corona's lots, with a median residual of 0.5 FAR points above what's currently built — a meaningful cushion given how heavily the building-class record already skews toward apartment buildings. That headroom sits on top of a parcel base that is already 92% residential and mostly built at walk-up scale, rather than on vacant or lightly built land. Per-lot zoning, land-use, and building-class detail for any parcel in Corona sits in individual property records.