Whitestone-Beechhurst, Queens

Whitestone-Beechhurst's lots run larger than anywhere else in this group: a median of 4,000 square feet, with larger parcels reaching up to 6,675 square feet. That scale lines up with a strongly postwar building stock — 50% of recorded buildings date from the 1945-to-1975 boom — against only 31% built before 1940 and 9% since 2000, suggesting the larger lots and the postwar construction wave arrived together rather than the neighborhood carrying older, smaller-scale development on its biggest parcels. Few other neighborhoods in this file pair that much lot size with that much postwar construction at once.

Building-class records are led by one-family homes at 65%, with two-family homes at 24% and walk-up apartment buildings at 3%. Land-use records show 89% of lots coded one- and two-family and 3% multi-family walk-up, with 95% of all lots carrying a residential classification and 11,315 units recorded in total across roughly 6,700 tax lots. That combination of large lots and a one-family-dominated building-class mix describes a lower-density residential pattern than the file shows for several nearby neighborhoods built at a similar time, even ones just across a border on the same tax maps, where two-family and walk-up shares tend to run higher.

Recorded building heights stay low at a median of 2 stories, though 1% of the stock rises above six stories. Flood mapping shows 2% of lots inside the federally mapped zone, a modest but nonzero share for a neighborhood this close to the water, and again a statement about the current regulatory map rather than a claim about any specific address. None of Whitestone-Beechhurst's lots sit inside a mapped historic district on record, which leaves zoning and building-class records as the main framework governing what can be built on any given parcel here, rather than any additional preservation review layered on top.

Development headroom is among the widest in this batch: 80% of lots carry a recorded floor-area allowance above what's currently built, with a median residual of 0.3 FAR — a meaningful cushion on top of an already spacious lot base. The neighborhood borders Bay Terrace-Clearview, College Point, and Murray Hill-Broadway Flushing, each profiled separately in the same tax-lot records covering northeast Queens, with construction-era and flood profiles that differ from Whitestone-Beechhurst's own, so none of the three is simply a repeat of it, and College Point in particular shows a markedly higher recorded flood share and a noticeably smaller median lot.