East Flushing, Queens

East Flushing's lots cluster tightly around a single size: the median measures 3,800 square feet, and even the larger parcels reach only up to 5,000 square feet — one of the narrowest lot-size ranges among the neighborhoods covered in this file, where other nearby areas show much wider gaps between typical and large lots. A buyer comparing two random East Flushing addresses is, on this measure, comparing two much more similar parcels than the same comparison would turn up elsewhere in Queens, where a handful of oversized lots often pull the upper range far past the median. Neighboring Flushing-Willets Point, by contrast, records a gap between its median and largest lots that runs many times wider.

Half of the recorded building stock, 50%, predates 1940, with 29% built during the 1945-to-1975 postwar boom and 11% since 2000 — one of the higher recent-construction shares in this pocket of Queens, even against a base that is still majority prewar. The median construction year is 1935, among the earliest in this file, putting East Flushing's typical building close in age to some of the oldest recorded stock covered here, despite the more recent building activity layered on top of it.

Building-class records are led by one-family homes at 42%, closely followed by two-family homes at 39% and walk-up apartment buildings at 9% — one of the more evenly split building-class mixes in this batch. Land-use records show 82% of lots coded one- and two-family, 9% multi-family walk-up, and 4% mixed residential and commercial, with 95% of all lots carrying a residential classification and 11,889 units recorded in total. That near-even one-family-to-two-family split is a different pattern from the more lopsided mixes recorded in several other neighborhoods nearby, where one-family homes often outnumber two-family homes by a wide margin instead.

Building heights sit at a median of 2 stories, with 0% of the stock above six stories, and none of East Flushing's lots sit inside a mapped historic district. 0% register inside the federally mapped flood zone, which reflects the current map rather than a claim about water reaching any lot. Development headroom covers 74% of lots, with a median residual of 0.3 FAR, a moderate cushion relative to some of the higher headroom figures recorded nearby, and the neighborhood borders Auburndale, Flushing-Willets Point, Murray Hill-Broadway Flushing, and Queensboro Hill, all profiled separately in these records with their own lot-size, flood, and construction-era figures.