Old Astoria-Hallets Point, Queens

Recent construction is the notable outlier in Old Astoria-Hallets Point's tax-lot records: 16% of recorded buildings date from 2000 or later, a meaningfully newer mix than its immediate neighbors show. That sits alongside a still-substantial prewar base — 66% of buildings predate 1940, with a median construction year of 1930 — so the record describes an older core with a visible layer of recent construction rather than a uniformly historic district. Only 12% of the recorded stock falls into the 1945-1975 postwar-boom window, a smaller share than the recent-construction figure, underlining how much of the newer activity here has been contemporary rather than mid-century.

10% of the neighborhood's roughly 1,300 tax lots sit inside the federally mapped flood zone — a regulatory-map fact tied to its waterfront-facing location, not a claim about water reaching any specific address. That share is higher than several inland Queens neighborhoods nearby, and it sits alongside the same waterfront geography that has likely drawn the recent construction described above. Flood-zone status and recent-construction activity often move together in waterfront-adjacent sections of the city, though the records treat them as two separate, independently verifiable facts about a given lot.

Walk-up apartment buildings make up 33% of the recorded building-class mix, two-family homes 30%, and mixed residential-and-commercial structures 7%. Land use leans toward one- and two-family homes at 36%, with multi-family walk-ups at 33% and mixed-use parcels at 11%. Height on record runs a median of 2 stories, with 5% of buildings recorded above 6 floors — a low-rise base with a thin but real slice of taller construction layered in, consistent with a neighborhood in the middle of a slow transition rather than one that has already been rebuilt wholesale.

79% of lots carry recorded floor area below the current allowance, with a median residual of 0.6 FAR points on those lots, spread across a median lot size of 2,516 square feet and an upper range reaching 7,776 square feet. 86% of lots are classified as residential, carrying 11,749 units in total, the smallest recorded unit count among the Astoria-area neighborhoods in this set. That combination of real recorded headroom and a comparatively modest existing unit count is one reason the neighborhood's recent-construction share stands out the way it does. The neighborhood borders Astoria (Central), Astoria (North)-Ditmars-Steinway, Queensbridge-Ravenswood-Dutch Kills, and the Upper East Side's Lenox Hill-Roosevelt Island section, sitting at a point where Queens and Manhattan's recorded building patterns meet across the river.