Richmond Hill, Queens

Richmond Hill's building-class record breaks from the pattern set by several nearby neighborhoods: two-family homes lead the stock at 40%, ahead of one-family classifications at 31%, with walk-up apartment buildings at 12%. Roughly 5,000 tax lots make up the neighborhood, one of the larger lot counts among the areas profiled alongside it, and the underlying parcel file carries no flagged data gaps, so every share below rests on the complete recorded set of lots rather than a partial one. That scale, combined with a two-family-led rather than one-family-led stock, sets Richmond Hill's tax-lot profile apart from the smaller, more uniformly one-family neighborhoods that surround it on several sides of the map.

That two-family-led stock is also among the oldest on record here: 92% of buildings predate 1940, and the median building dates to 1920. Only 4% was built during the 1945-to-1975 postwar boom, and 3% has gone up since 2000 — among the lowest postwar and recent-construction shares in the surrounding area. Land-use coding runs 70% one- and two-family use, 12% multi-family walk-up, and 8% mixed residential-and-commercial, and the median building height holds at 2.5 stories with 0% of recorded structures above 6 floors, a taller median than several of its lower-rise neighbors despite the age of the stock underneath it.

Lots run smaller than in several bordering neighborhoods, with a median of 2,563 square feet and the largest on record reaching 5,101 square feet. Recorded floor area sits below the district's current allowance on 75% of lots, with a median residual of 0.3 in floor-area-ratio terms. Flood and historic-district status both read 0% on file, leaving the zoning envelope as the primary constraint recorded for lots here rather than any hazard or preservation overlay — a reading of the current map, not a claim about the land itself. Taken together, the lot-size and headroom figures describe a neighborhood with somewhat less room to add floor area, lot for lot, than several of the larger-parcel neighborhoods nearby.

Residential use covers 91% of lots, together holding 10,821 housing units on record. Jamaica, Jamaica Hills-Briarwood, Kew Gardens, Ozone Park (North), South Richmond Hill, and Woodhaven all border Richmond Hill, each carrying its own separate lot-by-lot file within the same municipal record system, and several sharing the same two-family-led building pattern recorded at the center of this file, though none matching its particular combination of age, lot count, and building-class split all at once.