Glen Oaks-Floral Park-New Hyde Park, Queens

Few neighborhoods in this profile set were built in as narrow a window as Glen Oaks-Floral Park-New Hyde Park. Its tax-lot records show 85% of buildings dated to the 1945-to-1975 postwar boom, the highest concentration in this cluster of southeast Queens communities, against only 8% predating 1940 and 3% built in 2000 or later. The median dated structure went up in 1950, squarely inside that single building wave. That concentration leaves little room for either edge of the timeline: the file records almost nothing from the era before 1940 and almost nothing from the wave of construction after 2000, an unusually narrow age band even among the postwar-heavy neighborhoods in this part of Queens.

One-family homes dominate the building-class records at 88%, with two-family homes at 5% and walk-up apartment buildings at 2%. Land-use records mirror that pattern closely: 93% of lots classified as one- and two-family use, with 2% multi-family walk-up and 2% commercial and office use. That near-total one- and two-family land-use share leaves little space for other categories to register at all, matching the single-family concentration already visible in the building-class figures.

Lots run to a median of 4,000 square feet, with larger lots reaching up to 6,000 square feet, and building heights hold at a median of 1.7 stories — one of the lowest median heights recorded in this cluster, with no structure exceeding 6 stories. Residential use covers 96% of lots, and the roughly 4,200 parcels carry 9,993 housing units on record. A neighborhood built to that consistent a height, on lots clustered between 4,000 and 6,000 square feet, reads as a single coherent house-scale district rather than a patchwork of different eras and building types.

Few neighborhoods in this cluster show more unbuilt capacity than Glen Oaks-Floral Park-New Hyde Park: 94% of lots carry recorded floor area below their current district allowance, at a median residual of 0.4 FAR, the highest headroom share in the group. Flood mapping and historic-district records both show 0% of lots affected — statements about the current maps, not claims about the land or its buildings.

The neighborhood borders Bellerose and Douglaston-Little Neck, both profiled separately in these records and each carrying its own distinct construction-era mix. Neither shows the same degree of single-wave concentration; both instead split their recorded stock across a wider range of construction years than the narrow band recorded here.