Woodside, Queens

Woodside's tax-lot file centers on 1940 as its median construction year — precisely the line this profile uses to separate prewar from postwar stock. The record splits close to that divide: 49% of buildings predate 1940, and another 28% were built during the 1945-to-1975 postwar boom, leaving a comparatively modest 7% built in 2000 or later — construction spread across two full building eras rather than concentrated in one. The neighborhood sits between Sunnyside to the west and Elmhurst and Jackson Heights to the east, with Maspeth bordering it to the south and Astoria (East)-Woodside (North) to the north. That geographic position, tucked among several long-settled residential neighborhoods, lines up with a building-age record that shows two distinct construction waves rather than one dominant era.

Land use runs heavily toward one- and two-family use, at 53% of lots, with another 27% recorded as multi-family walk-up buildings and 5% as mixed residential-commercial use. Building-class records show a similar three-way lean: two-family buildings make up 33% of lots, walk-up apartment buildings 27%, and one-family homes 19%. Combined, 86% of the roughly 5,300 tax lots here are classed as residential, holding 20,399 recorded units — a high residential share built mostly at rowhouse rather than apartment-tower scale. The building-class and land-use figures track each other closely here, suggesting a neighborhood where recorded use and physical building form largely agree, rather than one where zoning designation and actual construction have diverged over time.

None of Woodside's parcels are recorded inside a federally mapped flood zone, and none carry a historic-district designation — a statement about what the current maps and registers show, not a claim about the neighborhood's history or risk. Building heights stay low across the file: a median of 2 stories, with just 1% of recorded buildings rising above 6 floors, consistent with a neighborhood built mostly as attached and semi-attached homes rather than apartment towers. That combination of zero mapped flood exposure and zero historic-district coverage is itself worth stating plainly, since absence on these two registers describes the current record rather than a guarantee about the future.

Lot sizes run tight, with a median parcel of 2,250 square feet and even the largest lots on record reaching only 4,850 square feet — a narrow range compared with the wider lot-size spreads recorded in some neighboring blocks. Development capacity remains meaningful even so: 71% of lots carry a recorded floor-area allowance above what's currently built, with a median residual of 0.3 FAR points per lot. That combination of tight, uniform lots and real recorded headroom suggests incremental, lot-by-lot development potential rather than large-scale assemblage. Zoning, flood, and building-class detail for any single parcel here is available in per-lot property records.