Jamaica Estates-Holliswood, Queens

Jamaica Estates-Holliswood's tax-lot file stands out first for scale rather than era. The median lot runs 5,851 square feet, and the largest lots on record reach 11,200 square feet — both well above what's typical among the neighborhoods bordering it. Roughly 3,400 tax lots make up the neighborhood, fewer than in most of its neighbors, consistent with a pattern of larger individual parcels rather than dense subdivision into smaller lots. No data gaps are flagged for this parcel set, so the figures throughout draw on a complete recorded file rather than a partial one, a coverage baseline worth noting before comparing it against denser neighbors nearby.

Construction history here splits close to evenly between two eras: 32% of buildings predate 1940 and 33% were built during the 1945-to-1975 postwar boom, with the median building dating to 1940 itself, right at the boundary between those periods. A further 7% of the stock has gone up since 2000, one of the higher recent-construction shares among nearby neighborhoods in this file. One-family classifications dominate the building stock at 83%, with two-family buildings at 7% and walk-up apartment buildings at 3%; land-use coding for one- and two-family use covers 89% of lots, and 2% of lots are coded vacant, a small but real share of undeveloped land inside an otherwise built-out area, sitting alongside a lot base that is otherwise almost entirely committed to one-family residential use.

Development capacity on these larger lots is also the widest recorded nearby: 94% of lots show recorded floor area below their district's current allowance, with a median residual of 0.4 in floor-area-ratio terms, the largest gap of any neighborhood in this cluster. Flood and historic-district status both read 0% on file, meaning no share of the neighborhood's lots currently carries either designation, so the primary constraint recorded here is the zoning envelope rather than any hazard or preservation overlay. That reading describes the current map and designation list, not a promise about the land itself.

Residential use covers 95% of lots, together holding 9,680 housing units on record — a lower unit count relative to lot count than several neighboring areas, consistent with the larger, lower-density parcels described above. Fresh Meadows-Utopia, Hollis, Jamaica, Jamaica Hills-Briarwood, Pomonok-Electchester-Hillcrest, and Queens Village all border Jamaica Estates-Holliswood, each with a separate lot-by-lot record in the same municipal file, and each built out at a noticeably tighter lot scale than what's recorded here.