Hunts Point, The Bronx
Zoning and property records for the Hunts Point neighborhood.
Hunts Point is the rare Bronx neighborhood where industry leads the ledger: industrial uses cover 26% of its roughly 1,300 tax lots, more than any residential category, and only 45% of lots are residential at all. The peninsula's 7,572 recorded housing units share the file with warehouses and distribution buildings, its median building stands 2 stories, and 5% of lots sit inside the federally mapped floodplain.
Hunts Point: what the records show
On the Hunts Point peninsula the usual Bronx ordering flips: industry, not housing, leads the land-use table. Industrial uses occupy 26% of the roughly 1,300 tax lots, ahead of multi-family walk-ups at 21% and one- and two-family buildings at 17%. Only 45% of lots are residential at all, and the 7,572 recorded housing units share the peninsula with blocks organized around work — food distribution, warehousing, and the truck routes that serve them. That inversion is the most important thing to know before reading any other number on this page, because borough medians assume a residential base that Hunts Point does not have.
The building-class ledger repeats the point from another angle. Walk-up apartment buildings account for 22% of recorded classes and two-family homes for 15% — but warehouse buildings match the two-family share exactly, at 15%, an equivalence few residential files produce. The physical profile is low and broad rather than tall and tight: the median building stands 2 stories, a bare 1% of buildings rise past 6 floors, and lots run large for this part of the borough, with a median of 5,000 square feet and one lot in ten spreading to 25,000 square feet or beyond. Nothing about that profile is accidental; a working waterfront's ledger simply looks different from a housing ledger, in class codes as much as in acreage.
The housing that remains is old, and its history is legible in the columns. The median build year is 1931 and 58% of buildings predate 1940. Unlike most nearby files, though, the mid-century decades register strongly here: 19% of the stock dates from between 1945 and 1975, a share the surrounding neighborhoods do not approach, with another 14% added since 2000. One practical caution follows — year-built figures on this page describe two different building populations at once, housing on one hand and industrial plant on the other, and the medians blend them.
Two constraint layers register, both modest but neither zero. Federal flood mapping places 5% of lots inside the mapped floodplain — for a peninsula, a figure best read lot by lot rather than averaged away, since the summary conceals exactly which blocks the map touches. A designated historic district covers 3% of lots. One family of statistics is honestly absent: the records carry no reliable development-capacity coverage for Hunts Point, so this page quotes no headroom or residual-allowance figures rather than guessing at them. The adjoining files are Longwood, Crotona Park East, Mott Haven-Port Morris, and Soundview-Bruckner-Bronx River, each of which reads very differently from this one. Reading Hunts Point against them is the quickest way to see how much work the land-use split does in shaping everything else on this page.
Common zoning districts in Hunts Point
Notable lots in Hunts Point
- 1280 Ryawa Avenue — M3-1, 623,000 sq ft lot, built 2003
- 1360 Ryawa Avenue — M3-1, 720,000 sq ft lot, built 1993
- 410 Halleck Street — M1-1, 5,612,000 sq ft lot, built 1960
- 355 Food Center Drive — M3-1, 2,245,711 sq ft lot, built 1973
- 1201 Lafayette Avenue — M1-2, 178,800 sq ft lot, built 1910
- 440 Food Center Drive — M3-1, 928,231 sq ft lot, built 1973
- 400 Food Center Drive — M3-1, 2,524,984 sq ft lot, built 1973
- 1080 Leggett Avenue — M1-2, 209,700 sq ft lot, built 1931
- 511 Barry Street — M1-2, 200,600 sq ft lot, built 1961
- 331 Tiffany Street — M3-1, 515,975 sq ft lot, built 1965
- 1025 East 149 Street — M3-1, 449,890 sq ft lot, built 1974
- 100 Oak Point Avenue — M3-1, 522,720 sq ft lot, built 2011
Hunts Point — quick questions
- How much of Hunts Point is industrial?
- Industrial uses cover 26% of tax lots — the largest single land-use category — and warehouse buildings make up 15% of recorded building classes. Only 45% of lots are residential, the inverse of the pattern in most of the surrounding Bronx.
- What share of Hunts Point sits in a flood zone?
- Federal flood mapping places 5% of tax lots inside the mapped floodplain. On a peninsula that figure is worth checking parcel by parcel rather than averaging: most lots are outside the mapped zone, but not all.
- Are there historic districts in Hunts Point?
- Yes — 3% of tax lots fall within a designated historic district. The rest of the neighborhood carries no such designation in the records.
- How old are the buildings in Hunts Point?
- The median build year is 1931 and 58% of buildings predate 1940. Notably, 19% date from the boom decades between 1945 and 1975 — a period that barely registers in most adjacent neighborhoods — with another 14% built since 2000.
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Neighborhood and parcel data: NYC municipal records (Department of City Planning). See our sources and methodology. Data as of 2026-07-11.