Flushing-Willets Point, Queens

Flushing-Willets Point's land-use file looks unlike any other neighborhood in this batch: no single category dominates, with mixed residential and commercial use at 22%, one- and two-family use at 19%, and multi-family walk-up at 19% all close together. Only 66% of lots carry a residential classification at all, the lowest share among the neighborhoods covered here, and 37,462 units are recorded across roughly 2,500 tax lots — a high unit count on a comparatively small lot base, and a sharp contrast with the overwhelmingly one- and two-family land-use files recorded for its bordering neighborhoods. Nowhere else in this batch does the land-use file split this evenly across three different categories at once.

Building-class records reflect the same mixed character: walk-up apartment buildings lead at 18%, with 16% of lots recorded under classifications outside the common home and apartment codes, and two-family homes at 13%. Recorded building heights run to a median of 3 stories, taller than every other neighborhood in this file, and 7% of the stock rises above six stories — also the highest share here, by a wide margin over neighborhoods where that figure holds at zero.

Flood mapping covers 12% of Flushing-Willets Point's lots, the highest share in this group, a statement about the current regulatory map rather than a guarantee about water. Lot sizes vary enormously: the median lot measures 2,730 square feet, but larger parcels reach up to 21,756 square feet — by far the widest lot-size range among the neighborhoods profiled here, spanning small residential parcels and much larger sites within the same file, a spread wide enough to dwarf the gap between median and largest lot recorded anywhere else in this batch.

The neighborhood's age profile centers later than its bordering neighbors: the median construction year is 1968, with 23% of the stock built since 2000, the highest recent-construction share in this batch, against 33% from the 1945-to-1975 postwar boom and 21% predating 1940. Development headroom is comparatively tight, at 65% of lots, with the highest median residual in this group, 0.5 FAR — figures that, together with the taller recorded heights and the mixed land use, mark this neighborhood as the clearest outlier among the ten covered here. None of Flushing-Willets Point's lots sit inside a mapped historic district. The neighborhood borders College Point, East Flushing, Murray Hill-Broadway Flushing, and Queensboro Hill, each recorded with a markedly different profile of its own.