Woodhaven, Queens

Woodhaven covers roughly 6,100 tax lots, the largest lot count of any neighborhood profiled in this cluster. Despite that scale, its development-capacity figures run in the opposite direction from most of its neighbors: only 39% of lots carry recorded floor area below their district's current allowance, and the median residual sits at 0 in floor-area-ratio terms — the lowest headroom and the only zero-residual figure recorded among the neighborhoods in this file. No coverage gaps are flagged in the underlying parcel record, so the figures throughout draw on the full recorded set rather than a partial sample, a baseline worth noting given how unusual this built-out reading is compared with its neighbors.

That built-out pattern rests on an overwhelmingly prewar base: 93% of the recorded stock predates 1940, with a median building year of 1920. The postwar decades added comparatively little — just 4% of buildings date to the 1945-to-1975 boom — while 6% of the neighborhood's stock has gone up since 2000. Two-family homes lead the building-class mix at 42%, just ahead of one-family classifications at 40%, with walk-up apartment buildings at 9% — a close split between the two dominant classifications that mirrors the near-even built-out condition of the lots themselves. Few neighborhoods in this file combine that scale of lot count with so little recorded room left to add floor area under current rules.

Land-use coding splits 82% one- and two-family, 9% multi-family walk-up, and 6% mixed residential-and-commercial. Lots run tight by comparison with several neighbors, at a median of 2,100 square feet, with the largest on record topping out at 4,000 square feet. Building heights stay low too: a median of 2 stories, with none of the recorded stock — 0% — rising past 6 floors. Flood mapping and historic-district status are equally quiet, both at 0%, which describes the current regulatory map and designation list rather than any claim about the land itself. That clean flood and landmark record sits alongside the built-out development figures as the other half of Woodhaven's regulatory profile, one shaped by zoning capacity rather than by hazard or preservation review.

Residential use covers 97% of lots, together holding 12,642 housing units on record. Cypress Hills and East New York-City Line in Brooklyn border Woodhaven along with Ozone Park (North) and Richmond Hill in Queens, each with its own separate lot-by-lot file in the same municipal record system, though none carrying quite as tight a headroom figure as the one recorded here, nor as large a lot count, nor quite as high a prewar share.