Pomonok-Electchester-Hillcrest, Queens

Pomonok-Electchester-Hillcrest's building stock reads as more layered than many of the neighborhoods that border it. Records show 27% of buildings predating 1940, a full 50% built during the 1945-to-1975 postwar boom, and 5% completed since 2000 — three distinct construction eras all represented in meaningful share across the neighborhood's roughly 4,500 tax lots, where the median building dates to 1945. Few nearby files carry as even a spread across prewar, boom-era, and contemporary construction at once; most read as dominated by a single period, while this one reads as a neighborhood that kept adding to its stock across several generations rather than filling in during one window. The parcel count here carries no flagged data gaps, so the shares above rest on a full recorded set.

One-family classifications still lead the building stock at 67%, with two-family buildings recorded at 22% and walk-up apartment buildings at 5% — a mix weighted toward small-scale ownership but with a meaningfully larger two-family presence than some of its immediate neighbors. Land-use coding runs even more concentrated toward one- and two-family use, at 89% of lots, with 5% coded multi-family walk-up and 2% mixed residential-and-commercial, leaving only a narrow remainder coded otherwise. Lots run a median of 2,850 square feet, with the largest reaching up to 4,560 square feet, and the median building height holds at 2 stories — 0% of recorded buildings here rise above 6 floors, keeping the built form low regardless of the mixed construction eras underneath it.

Recorded floor area sits below the district allowance on 75% of lots, with a median residual of 0.3 in floor-area-ratio terms, a figure that sits in the middle of the range recorded among the neighborhoods bordering it. The flood and preservation record is clean on both counts: 0% of lots fall inside a mapped flood zone, and 0% carry a historic-district designation, so whatever development constraint applies to a given parcel here comes from the zoning map rather than overlay review of any kind. A 0% share on either count is a statement about the current regulatory map, not a claim that no risk or history exists on the ground.

Residential use covers 96% of lots, and those parcels together hold 14,551 housing units on record — the highest unit count among the neighborhoods bordering it in this file. Fresh Meadows-Utopia, Jamaica Estates-Holliswood, Jamaica Hills-Briarwood, Kew Gardens Hills, and Queensboro Hill all sit adjacent, each with its own separate lot-level record available for comparison, and each shaped by a somewhat different construction timeline than the mixed-era pattern recorded here.