Morris Park, The Bronx

Morris Park's recent-construction figure is the quietest among the neighborhoods covered in this file: just 2% of buildings on record date from 2000 or later, the lowest such share in this batch. That quiet pace pairs with modest development headroom — 68% of lots carry less floor area than their district currently allows, with a median residual of only 0.2 additional FAR, both among the lower figures recorded here. Read together, the file describes a neighborhood that finished most of its building years ago and has added little since, a pattern distinct from several higher-turnover files nearby. Lots run to a median of 2,500 square feet, with the top of the file reaching 5,000 square feet — a tight, uniform parcel file that leaves little room for outsized exceptions. The lot-size figures alone would be unremarkable in this batch; it is only alongside the quiet construction pace that the file starts to read as distinctive.

The median building on record dates to 1940, with 47% of the stock predating that year and 32% built during the postwar boom between 1945 and 1975 that followed. No lots are recorded inside a historic district, so the age profile here isn't the product of a preservation designation — it simply reflects how little has changed on the ground in the neighborhood since the postwar years ended. Only 2% of the file has been added since, the lowest since-2000 share of any neighborhood covered in this batch, and a clear contrast with the more actively rebuilding files elsewhere in this cluster.

One- and two-family homes cover 73% of the land-use file, with multi-family walk-up buildings at 14% and vacant land at 3%. Building class records track closely: two-family homes make up 42% of structures, one-family homes 31%, and walk-up apartments 14%. The median building height across the neighborhood is 2 stories, and none of its recorded buildings rise above 6 floors — the same low, uniform profile the land-use and lot-size figures already describe.

Morris Park's roughly 4,000 tax lots carry 9,863 housing units, with residential use covering 90% of parcels. None of those lots sit inside a mapped flood zone — a 0% share on the current federal map. The neighborhood borders Allerton, Parkchester, Pelham Gardens, Pelham Parkway-Van Nest, and Westchester Square, each covered on these pages down to the individual tax lot, and each with its own construction-era mix to compare against the unusually quiet one recorded here.