Morrisania, The Bronx
Zoning and property records for the Morrisania neighborhood.
Morrisania is a walk-up neighborhood first: multi-family walk-ups occupy 35% of its roughly 1,500 tax lots — the largest single land use — and walk-up apartment buildings account for 38% of recorded classes. The stock splits between a prewar majority, with 57% built before 1940, and a substantial rebuilt share, 26% dating from 2000 or later. Median height is 3 stories, and the records count 16,550 housing units.
Morrisania: what the records show
Unlike most of the neighborhoods around it, Morrisania's largest land use is not the small home but the walk-up: multi-family walk-up buildings occupy 35% of its roughly 1,500 tax lots, with one- and two-family buildings second at 24% and mixed residential-commercial parcels — the corner-store-below-apartments type — holding 12%. The class ledger agrees, and emphatically: walk-up apartment buildings make up 38% of recorded classes, well clear of two-family homes at 16% and one-family homes at 8%. This is tenement-scale fabric, with a median height of 3 stories and 5% of buildings rising past 6 floors.
The age columns tell a story of endurance and replacement in the same breath. The median build year is 1931 and 57% of the stock predates 1940, yet 26% of buildings on record date from 2000 or later — more than a quarter of the neighborhood rebuilt within the current century. The boom era in between is nearly silent at 3%. Read together, the numbers describe prewar blocks interleaved with recent construction rather than a neighborhood that turned over all at once, and they mean the typical building on any given block may sit at either end of a very long age range.
The city's tax-lot records also show room left under the zoning, though less than the raw share suggests. Exactly 80% of lots carry floor area below their district allowance, but the median residual floor-area ratio is a comparatively modest 1.2 — slack that is widespread yet shallow, lot by lot. A designated historic district covers 4% of lots, a preservation layer most of the surrounding files lack, and one that applies to specific blocks rather than the neighborhood at large.
Flood mapping draws a blank: 0% of Morrisania lots fall within the federally mapped floodplain, which speaks to the current federal maps and nothing more. Lots hold to the borough's compact standard — a median of 2,500 square feet, with one lot in ten at 10,790 or larger — and 75% of lots are residential, carrying 16,550 housing units. The adjoining files are Claremont Village-Claremont (East), Concourse-Concourse Village, Crotona Park East, Longwood, and Melrose, several of which share the rebuilt-alongside-prewar pattern while none matches its walk-up-led land use.
Common zoning districts in Morrisania
Notable lots in Morrisania
- 443 East 162nd Street — R8, 68,650 sq ft lot, built 2017
- 695 East 163 Street — R6, 438,850 sq ft lot, built 1957
- 725 East 161 Street — R6, 231,000 sq ft lot, built 1960
- 1020 Trinity Avenue — R6, 266,000 sq ft lot, built 1957
- 1010 Washington Avenue — M1-1/R7-2, 18,431 sq ft lot, built 2023
- 432 East 162 Street — R8, 36,558 sq ft lot, built 2016
- 3350 Park Avenue — M1-1, 69,407 sq ft lot, built 2018
- 872 Trinity Avenue — R6, 116,000 sq ft lot, built 1960
- 3160 Park Avenue — R8, 24,938 sq ft lot, built 2015
- 361 East 161 Street — R8, 56,056 sq ft lot, built 2009
- 1007 Union Avenue — R6, 38,595 sq ft lot, built 2021
- 1049 Washington Avenue — M1-1/R7-2, 27,100 sq ft lot, built 2024
Morrisania — quick questions
- What building types are most common in Morrisania?
- Walk-up apartment buildings dominate, at 38% of recorded classes, with two-family homes at 16% and one-family homes at 8%. Walk-ups also lead the land-use table, on 35% of lots.
- How much of Morrisania was built after 2000?
- 26% of buildings on record date from 2000 or later — a substantial rebuilt share sitting alongside a prewar majority of 57%.
- Is Morrisania in a FEMA flood zone?
- The federal flood maps place 0% of Morrisania's tax lots in the mapped floodplain. That describes the map as drawn today; it is not a promise about future flooding.
- How big are the lots in Morrisania?
- The median tax lot measures 2,500 square feet, and one lot in ten reaches 10,790 square feet or more — compact parcels typical of the surrounding blocks.
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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.