Murray Hill-Broadway Flushing, Queens

Murray Hill-Broadway Flushing's age profile is unusually balanced: 42% of recorded buildings predate 1940 and 41% date from the 1945-to-1975 postwar boom, a near-even split rather than a neighborhood dominated by one era. The median construction year, 1942, sits right at the seam between the two, and just 5% of the stock has gone up since 2000 — a quiet recent-construction figure layered onto a building stock that reads as two distinct generations rather than one continuous wave. Few neighborhoods in this file split this closely between the two eras rather than leaning heavily toward one.

Building-class records are led by one-family homes at 59%, with two-family homes at 20% and walk-up apartment buildings at 11%. Land-use records show 79% of lots coded one- and two-family, 11% multi-family walk-up, and 4% mixed residential and commercial, with 95% of all lots carrying a residential classification and 23,068 units recorded in total across roughly 7,700 tax lots. That unit count, well above what a one-family-led building-class mix alone would suggest, points to a meaningful multi-family layer sitting alongside the neighborhood's houses, mirrored in the double-digit multi-family walk-up and mixed-use land-use shares recorded for the same lots.

Lots run to a median of 3,900 square feet, with larger parcels reaching up to 6,000 square feet — a moderate range, neither the tightest nor the widest recorded among the neighborhoods in this file, and closer in scale to Whitestone-Beechhurst's than to the far narrower range recorded for East Flushing. Building heights are recorded at a median of 2 stories, with 0% of the stock above six stories, and none of the neighborhood's lots sit inside a mapped historic district. The federally mapped flood zone covers 0% here as well, a fact about the current regulatory map rather than about the land, consistent with the inland position implied by the surrounding record set.

Development headroom sits at 78% of lots carrying a recorded floor-area allowance above current construction, with a median residual of 0.3 FAR, leaving most of the neighborhood's lots with recorded room to add floor area under current rules. The neighborhood sits at a crossroads, bordering Auburndale, Bay Terrace-Clearview, College Point, East Flushing, Flushing-Willets Point, and Whitestone-Beechhurst — six neighboring areas in this file, each carrying its own construction-era and density figures rather than sharing Murray Hill-Broadway Flushing's evenly split profile, and each broken out separately in these same tax-lot records for direct comparison, lot by lot rather than as a single averaged figure.