Oakland Gardens-Hollis Hills, Queens

Oakland Gardens-Hollis Hills is almost entirely a postwar neighborhood on record: 75% of its buildings date from the 1945-to-1975 boom, the highest boom-era share in this batch, against just 2% built before 1940, the lowest prewar share recorded here. The median construction year is 1950, and 6% of the stock has gone up since 2000, enough to register but nowhere near enough to change the neighborhood's overwhelmingly midcentury character. Few of the neighborhoods in this set show so little of their recorded stock predating the postwar boom.

Building-class records show 78% one-family homes, 15% two-family homes, and 3% class C walk-up apartment buildings, across roughly 3,200 tax lots, the smallest parcel count in this set. Land-use coding shows 92% of lots as one- and two-family residential, with 4% multi-family walk-up and 1% mixed residential and commercial. 97% of all lots carry a residential designation, holding 10,413 units, and the recorded median building height is 2 stories, with no building tall enough to register above 0% at the 6-floor mark these records track.

Development records show 90% of lots carrying unused floor-area capacity against current district rules, with a median residual of 0.4 FAR. No lots here are mapped inside a flood zone or a historic district; both figures sit at 0% on record. Lot sizes run to a median of 4,120 square feet, with the 90th percentile reaching 6,500 square feet, mid-range figures compared with some of the larger-lot neighborhoods profiled in this set, and larger than several of the smaller-lot footprints nearby.

Oakland Gardens-Hollis Hills borders Bayside, Bellerose, and Queens Village on record, each carrying a different construction-year profile worth comparing at the same tax-lot detail available per parcel. Despite carrying the smallest parcel count in this batch, the neighborhood's residential share and unused floor-area capacity both rank among the higher figures recorded across the set. Bordering Bayside in particular offers a useful contrast: a similar one- and two-family building-class mix sits alongside a far heavier concentration in the postwar boom years specifically.

Between the near-total postwar construction, the near-absence of prewar stock, and a wide majority of lots still carrying unused floor-area capacity, the tax-lot record describes a neighborhood whose building stock arrived in one concentrated wave rather than accumulating gradually across decades, and one that still carries meaningful room under current rules. Few neighborhoods in this batch pair so little prewar stock with so much recorded floor-area headroom at the same time.