Queensboro Hill, Queens

Queensboro Hill's tax-lot records carry the highest residential share among the neighborhoods in this file: 97% of roughly 4,300 lots are classified residential. The building-class mix is also among the most balanced here, with one-family homes at 45% and two-family homes at 42% — closer together than the lopsided mixes seen in most nearby neighborhoods — and walk-up apartment buildings at 8%. Few other neighborhoods in this file combine that level of overall residential purity with a building-class split this close to even, and the two facts read as reinforcing rather than independent: a neighborhood built almost entirely for housing, spread fairly evenly between one-family and two-family forms rather than dominated by either.

The neighborhood's age profile centers on the postwar period: the median building dates to 1950, with 58% of recorded stock from the 1945-to-1975 boom, the second-highest postwar-boom share in this batch, against just 20% predating 1940 and 6% built since 2000. That leaves relatively little of the record dating from before or well after the boom itself, concentrating the construction history of Queensboro Hill into a comparatively narrow span of years, echoing the even heavier postwar concentration recorded elsewhere in this file for Bay Terrace-Clearview.

Land-use records show 88% of lots coded one- and two-family, 8% multi-family walk-up, and 1% commercial and office use, with 7,227 units recorded in total across those lots. Lots run to a median of 2,500 square feet, with larger parcels reaching up to 4,000 square feet — a modest, fairly tight range consistent with the neighborhood's near-total residential land use and its comparatively small overall unit count relative to some of its larger neighbors. The 1% commercial and office share is itself among the smallest recorded for any non-residential category in this batch, tied with the smallest vacant-land share recorded for Bay Terrace-Clearview.

Building heights hold at a median of 2 stories, with 0% of the stock above six stories, and none of Queensboro Hill's lots sit inside a mapped historic district. 0% register inside the federally mapped flood zone on record, a statement about today's map rather than a promise about water. Development headroom covers 75% of lots, with a median residual of 0.3 FAR, a middle-of-the-pack figure among the neighborhoods in this file, well short of the widest headroom margins recorded here, and the neighborhood borders Auburndale, East Flushing, Flushing-Willets Point, Fresh Meadows-Utopia, Kew Gardens Hills, and Pomonok-Electchester-Hillcrest, each carrying its own figures in these same records.