Soundview-Clason Point, The Bronx

Soundview-Clason Point's roughly 2,900 tax lots carry a construction record skewed later than most of the neighborhoods on these pages: 22% of buildings date from 2000 or later. That newer building is going up alongside a flood map that covers 13% of lots and a land-use file that still lists 7% of parcels as vacant — a combination that describes a neighborhood where recorded construction and recorded vacancy sit side by side rather than one having fully replaced the other. Compared with its Soundview neighbor to the north, whose median building dates two decades earlier, this file reads as the more actively changing of the two. Residential use covers 88% of lots, and the file records 13,422 housing units in total — a steady base underneath the more recent construction activity.

The median building on record was completed in 1950, squarely inside the postwar boom years, and 28% of the recorded stock dates from that same window between 1945 and 1975. Prewar construction accounts for a smaller 40% share here than in several neighboring areas, and no lots are recorded inside a historic district, so none of the age profile carries a preservation designation on file. Read together, the file describes three overlapping building waves — prewar, postwar-boom, and post-2000 — rather than one dominant era, which is unusual among the files in this cluster. No single decade of construction defines Soundview-Clason Point the way it defines some of the more uniformly aged neighborhoods nearby.

One- and two-family homes dominate the land-use file at 67%, with multi-family walk-up buildings a distant second at 19%. Building class records track closely: two-family homes make up 42% of structures, one-family homes 25%, and walk-up apartment buildings 19%. Lots run small, with a median size of 2,500 square feet, and even at the upper end the file stays tight: one lot in ten reaches 5,000 square feet or more, among the narrowest spreads recorded in this batch. The median building height is 2 stories, and only 1% of structures exceed 6 floors, consistent with the low-rise character the land-use numbers already describe. Nothing in the class ledger suggests a hidden apartment-house core behind the small-home surface.

Development headroom is broad: 75% of lots carry less recorded floor area than their district currently permits, with a median residual of 0.3 additional FAR. On the flood side, 13% of lots sit inside a mapped special flood hazard area on the current federal map — a fact about the regulatory boundary, not a claim about the rest of the neighborhood. Soundview-Clason Point borders Castle Hill-Unionport and Soundview-Bruckner-Bronx River, both covered on these pages down to the individual tax lot, each showing a somewhat different balance of age and headroom than the file described here.