Douglaston-Little Neck, Queens

Douglaston-Little Neck's tax lots run larger than any other neighborhood in this set: a median of 4,905 square feet, reaching 10,000 square feet at the 90th percentile. The neighborhood also carries a historic-district designation on 12% of its roughly 5,600 tax lots, the only double-digit historic-district share among the neighborhoods profiled here, distinct from the 0% recorded in most of its neighbors, and a fact that sits alongside its unusually large recorded parcels. Large lots and a real historic-district share don't often appear together in this set, and here they do, across a base of roughly 5,600 tax lots.

Building-class records show 77% one-family homes and 11% two-family homes, with 4% recorded under vacant-land classifications. Land-use coding shows 88% of lots as one- and two-family residential, 4% vacant, and 2% multi-family walk-up. 92% of all lots carry a residential designation, holding 10,446 units, and the recorded median building height is 2 stories, with no building tall enough to register above 0% at the 6-floor mark these records track. The one-family concentration here, at 77%, runs higher than the two-family-leaning mixes recorded in several of the more tightly built southeast Queens neighborhoods nearby.

The construction-year record centers on a median of 1950, with 50% of buildings dated to the 1945-to-1975 postwar boom, 34% predating 1940, and 8% built since 2000, the highest since-2000 share recorded in this batch of neighborhoods. Flood-map records show 6% of lots inside a mapped flood zone, a smaller share than nearby Howard Beach-Lindenwood carries, but not a zero. Construction here has never fully stopped in any one era, splitting fairly evenly across the prewar years, the postwar boom, and the years since.

Development records show 91% of lots carrying unused floor-area capacity against current district rules, with a median residual of 0.4 FAR, among the wider gaps recorded in this set. That combination of larger lots, a historic-district layer that reaches a real share of the footprint, and a wide majority of parcels still carrying unused capacity distinguishes Douglaston-Little Neck from the mostly uniform, unmapped profile recorded across several of its neighbors, even though its median building height stays the same low 2 stories found nearly everywhere else in this batch.

The neighborhood borders Bellerose and Glen Oaks-Floral Park-New Hyde Park, each with different flood-map and historic-district profiles worth comparing at the same tax-lot level. Together, the lot-size, historic-district, and since-2000 figures describe a neighborhood whose recorded footprint carries more built-in variety than its low, 2-story median height might otherwise suggest.