Claremont Village-Claremont (East), The Bronx

Count parcels and Claremont Village with eastern Claremont looks tiny — roughly 480 tax lots, among the smallest files in this part of the Bronx. The lots themselves explain it. The median parcel measures 4,284 square feet, but one in ten spreads past 29,044, and that long tail is the signature of a neighborhood assembled into large holdings — campus-style housing, institutional grounds, consolidated blocks — rather than subdivided rows. Where most Bronx files describe many small owners on many small lots, this one describes fewer, larger pieces, and every per-lot statistic that follows should be read against that geometry.

The age profile centers where few of the surrounding files do: the median build year is 1948, squarely postwar. That date is worth pausing on — in much of the adjacent borough the middle of the century is a gap in the record, while here it is the center of gravity, consistent with the large postwar housing campuses the lot geometry already implies. Even so, no single era dominates: 49% of buildings predate 1940, 9% date from the boom years between 1945 and 1975, and 12% has been added since 2000. Buildings run to a median of 3 stories, with 6% rising past 6 floors.

Land use and building classes both carry entries most residential files never show. One- and two-family buildings cover 22% of lots and multi-family walk-ups 17%, but public facilities and institutions claim 11% — schools, community buildings, and their kin. In the class ledger, walk-up apartment buildings lead at 22% and two-family homes follow at 20%, while garage and vehicle-storage buildings account for 12%. Just 54% of lots are residential, yet they hold 9,097 housing units — density carried on the big parcels rather than spread along rows.

Several entries read zero or absent, and each deserves its honest gloss. Federal flood mapping places 0% of lots in the floodplain — a fact about today's maps, not tomorrow's weather. No lot sits in a designated historic district: 0% there too. And the development-capacity family is nulled for coverage in this file, so no headroom share or residual-allowance figure is quoted for Claremont Village — an absence of numbers, not evidence of absence. Readers comparing this page with its neighbors — Concourse-Concourse Village, Morrisania, Mount Eden-Claremont (West), Mount Hope, and Tremont — should also keep the small denominator in mind: with roughly 480 lots, each percentage point represents only a handful of parcels.