Crotona Park East, The Bronx

Crotona Park East was rebuilt at house scale, and the records show it plainly: one- and two-family buildings occupy 44% of its roughly 1,700 tax lots — nearly half the neighborhood given over to small-home land use — while the median build year sits at 1988. Only 42% of the stock predates 1940 and a bare 1% dates from the boom years between 1945 and 1975; much of what stands entered the record after the boom window closed and before the century turned, with 13% more added since 2000. That combination — recent construction, small buildings — inverts the borough cliche, and it changes how every other number on this page should be read.

The class ledger splits evenly at the top: two-family homes and walk-up apartment buildings each account for 29% of recorded classes, with one-family homes at 14%. By land use, multi-family walk-ups take 27% of lots and mixed residential-commercial parcels 7%. The result is a low, fine-grained fabric — a median of 3 stories, only 3% of buildings above 6 floors — on small, regular lots: a median of 2,500 square feet, with one lot in ten reaching 10,000 or more. It is an overwhelmingly residential file, with 82% of lots in residential use and 14,070 housing units recorded.

For all the rebuilding, the zoning ledger still shows unusual slack. Some 88% of lots carry recorded floor area below their district allowance, and the median residual floor-area ratio is 2.2 — wide margins, largely because house-scale buildings sit in districts written for apartment houses. As always, headroom is a paper fact: it measures what the rules would allow, not what any owner plans, and it varies parcel by parcel in ways a neighborhood share cannot capture.

Constraints are light in the record. Federal flood mapping touches 1% of lots — nearly all of the neighborhood sits outside the mapped floodplain, though the map is a map and not a forecast. No designated historic district appears: 0% of lots. The park that names the neighborhood runs along its edge, and the surrounding files — Hunts Point, Longwood, Morrisania, Soundview-Bruckner-Bronx River, Tremont, and West Farms — make useful contrasts, since few pair new small homes with allowances this generous. Per-lot detail for all of the roughly 1,700 parcels, including each lot's own residual allowance, is available on PearlAudit.