North Corona, Queens
Zoning and property records for the North Corona neighborhood.
North Corona's age record has an unusual gap: 69% of buildings predate 1940, but only 7% date from the 1945-to-1975 postwar boom, while 19% have gone up since 2000 — new construction outpacing the midcentury era by a wide margin. Development capacity follows the same recent-activity pattern: 78% of the roughly 3,100 tax lots carry unused floor-area capacity on record, with a median residual of 0.6 FAR points per lot.
North Corona: what the records show
North Corona's building-age record has a gap where a middle generation should be. 69% of buildings predate 1940, and 19% have gone up since 2000, but only 7% date from the 1945-to-1975 postwar-boom years — construction here skipped that middle era almost entirely before picking back up recently. The median building on record still dates to 1930, reflecting the weight of that prewar majority. The neighborhood borders Corona to the south, East Elmhurst to the north, Elmhurst to the west, and Jackson Heights farther west still. That cluster of neighbors shares a broadly similar prewar-and-recent-construction pattern, though North Corona's own gap in the middle decades is unusually pronounced.
That recent-construction activity shows up again in the capacity numbers: North Corona's roughly 3,100 tax lots show real recorded capacity too — 78% carry a floor-area allowance beyond what's currently built, and the median residual runs 0.6 FAR points per lot, usable headroom rather than a technicality. Land use stays mixed between house-scale and apartment-scale use, with 42% of lots recorded as one- and two-family use, 38% as multi-family walk-up buildings, and 12% as mixed residential-commercial use. That land-use mix, combined with the high headroom share, describes a neighborhood with more building activity in progress than its otherwise-prewar age profile might suggest, and the 19% since-2000 construction share backs that reading up directly.
Building-class records lean walk-up: 37% of lots are classed as walk-up apartment buildings, close behind two-family buildings at 36%, with mixed residential-commercial buildings recorded on another 9% of lots. Overall, 92% of parcels here are classed as residential, holding 11,061 recorded units — a dense residential base for a neighborhood built mostly low to the ground. The near-even split between walk-up and two-family building classes mirrors the land-use record's own close split between one- and two-family and multi-family walk-up use, reinforcing that North Corona sits between two building patterns rather than firmly in either.
Heights stay modest despite the density: a median of 2 stories, with 0% of recorded buildings rising above 6 floors. None of North Corona's parcels carry a federally mapped flood-zone designation or a recorded historic-district designation, and lot sizes run tight and consistent — a median of 2,500 square feet, with even the largest lots on record reaching only 4,000 square feet. That combination of modest lot sizes, low recorded heights, and real floor-area headroom describes a neighborhood positioned for continued lot-by-lot construction. Zoning capacity and building-class detail for any single lot here is available in per-lot property records.
Common zoning districts in North Corona
Notable lots in North Corona
- 37-10 114th Street — R6, 31,250 sq ft lot, built 1963
- 112-50 Northern Boulevard — R6, 147,105 sq ft lot, built 1953
- 37-53 Junction Boulevard — R6A, 26,125 sq ft lot, built 1931
- 38-11 108 Street — R6B, 25,000 sq ft lot, built 2003
- 112-02 Northern Boulevard — R6A, 14,192 sq ft lot, built 2009
- 37-25 Junction Boulevard — R6A, 9,797 sq ft lot, built 1930
- 34-12 113 Street — R6, 54,800 sq ft lot, built 1973
- 96-10 37 Avenue — R6A, 18,200 sq ft lot, built 1929
- 106-04 Northern Boulevard — R6A, 8,400 sq ft lot, built 2014
- 37-39 Junction Boulevard — R6A, 9,721 sq ft lot, built 1969
- 39-06 108 Street — R6B, 7,500 sq ft lot, built 2007
- 103-12 Northern Blvd — R6A, 10,213 sq ft lot, built 2018
North Corona — quick questions
- How old are the buildings in North Corona?
- The median building dates to 1930. 69% of the stock predates 1940, only 7% dates from the 1945-to-1975 postwar boom, and 19% has gone up since 2000.
- Is there room to build in North Corona?
- 78% of tax lots carry a recorded floor-area allowance above what's currently built, with a median residual of 0.6 FAR points per lot.
- What's the land-use mix in North Corona?
- 42% of lots are recorded as one- and two-family use, 38% as multi-family walk-up buildings, and 12% as mixed residential-commercial use.
- Does North Corona have flood-zone exposure?
- No — current federal flood mapping shows 0% of the neighborhood's tax lots inside a mapped flood zone.
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Neighborhood and parcel data: NYC municipal records (Department of City Planning). See our sources and methodology. Data as of 2026-07-11.