East Elmhurst, Queens

East Elmhurst's file reads as low-rise and family-scaled to an unusual degree: 79% of tax lots are recorded as one- and two-family land use, and 0% of buildings on the roughly 4,800 parcels are recorded above 6 floors. The building-class rolls back this up directly — two-family buildings account for 43% of lots and one-family homes for 36%, the two largest recorded classes by a wide margin over the third-place walk-up share of 11%. The neighborhood borders Astoria (North)-Ditmars-Steinway to the north, Jackson Heights to the south, and North Corona to the east. Across all of these adjoining records, East Elmhurst's own land-use, building-class, and height figures point consistently toward the same low-rise, family-home pattern.

Overall, 93% of East Elmhurst's parcels are classed as residential, holding 11,427 recorded units across a base of roughly 4,800 tax lots. Lot sizes run consistent and modest: a median of 2,400 square feet, with even the largest lots on record reaching only 4,119 square feet — a tight range that points to a neighborhood built out lot by lot rather than assembled into larger sites. That narrow lot-size spread pairs with the dominant one- and two-family land use to describe a fine-grained, largely unconsolidated parcel pattern, the kind where few individual lots carry outsized development potential on their own.

The typical building here dates to 1935, and 56% of the recorded stock predates 1940. Postwar-boom construction, from 1945 to 1975, accounts for another 25% of buildings, and 7% of the recorded stock has gone up since 2000 — a small but real share of newer construction layered onto an otherwise prewar-and-midcentury neighborhood. The combination of a 1935 median year and a 56% prewar share suggests building activity that continued steadily into the following decade rather than stopping abruptly, and the 25% postwar-boom share shows that pace carried on well past 1940 as well.

None of East Elmhurst's parcels are recorded inside a federally mapped flood zone, and none carry a historic-district designation, both statements about the current record rather than a claim about risk or architectural age. Development capacity remains real if modest: 63% of lots carry a recorded floor-area allowance above what's currently built, with a median residual of 0.2 FAR points per lot — a smaller recorded cushion than in some denser parts of the borough, consistent with a neighborhood already built close to what its low-rise districts allow. Per-lot zoning, flood, and building-class detail for any parcel here sits in individual property records.