Glendale, Queens

Glendale's parcel record leans residential to an unusual degree: 95% of tax lots are classed as residential use, with 76% specifically recorded as one- and two-family land use and another 13% as multi-family walk-up buildings. Building-class records back this up directly — two-family buildings account for 45% of lots and one-family homes for 31%, with walk-up apartment buildings recorded on a smaller 13% share. The neighborhood borders Ridgewood to the north, Middle Village to the east, and Rego Park and Forest Hills farther south. Across that group of neighbors, Glendale's own record stands out for how little of its land use falls outside residential categories altogether.

The median building on record dates to 1925, and 84% of the recorded stock predates 1940. Postwar-boom construction, from 1945 to 1975, accounts for only 7% of buildings, and just 2% of the recorded stock has gone up since 2000, a small share of new construction layered onto an overwhelmingly prewar base. That 1925 median, paired with the 95% residential share noted above, describes a neighborhood that reached its residential, low-rise form early and has stayed that way since. The gap between the 84% prewar share and the 7% postwar-boom share also points to a slowdown in construction activity in the decades right after 1940.

Glendale holds 13,991 recorded units across its roughly 6,700 tax lots. Lot sizes run small and tight — a median of 2,300 square feet, with even the largest lots on record reaching only 3,200 square feet. Heights stay low throughout: a median of 2 stories, with 0% of recorded buildings rising above 6 floors. That combination of small, consistent lots and uniformly low recorded heights matches the neighborhood's building-class record, in which one- and two-family homes together account for the large majority of parcels, with few departing from that pattern in either lot size or height.

None of Glendale's parcels carry a federally mapped flood-zone designation or sit inside a historic district — statements about the current map and register, not a claim about the neighborhood's past. Development capacity remains real on this mostly built-out, family-scale base: recorded floor-area capacity above what's currently built reaches 74% of lots, with a median residual of 0.3 FAR points, spread across a parcel base where 45% of lots are already built as two-family homes and another 31% as one-family homes. Per-lot zoning and land-use detail for any of Glendale's parcels is available in PearlAudit's property records.