Tremont, The Bronx

Tremont's file describes a neighborhood whose construction record splits close to evenly between two eras: 50% of recorded buildings predate 1940, and the median construction year across the neighborhood is 1936 — right at the edge of that prewar cutoff. That places a meaningful share of the neighborhood's older buildings right at the boundary the file uses to define 'prewar,' rather than deep into either era. Only 4% of the stock dates from the 1945-to-1975 postwar boom, but 24% has gone up since 2000, a share notably weighted toward the newer end of the file compared with the neighborhood's older core. Reading the construction-year figures on their own, without assuming either era explains the other, is the more careful way to use this kind of file.

That newer construction lands on top of a base with real recorded capacity: 85% of Tremont's roughly 1,800 tax lots carry floor area below their district allowance, and the median residual FAR runs to 2.1. Median lot size is comparatively tight at 2,500 square feet, though the largest recorded lots reach up to 9,750 square feet. That combination of tight median lot size and high recorded headroom means capacity, where it exists, is more likely to show up as additional floors on an existing footprint than as assembled larger sites.

Building classes split 33% walk-up apartment buildings, 23% two-family homes, and 11% one-family homes, while the land-use file logs 35% of lots for one- and two-family use, 31% for multifamily walk-up use, and 7% for mixed residential-and-commercial use — a genuine blend rather than a single dominant pattern. Floors run to a median of 3, with 4% of recorded buildings rising above 6 stories. 77% of lots are logged as residential, carrying 15,149 housing units. Historic-district coverage and mapped floodplain share both stand at 0% for Tremont's lots.

The neighborhood's mapped zoning combines an apartment-house designation with a lower-density residential strip and a manufacturing-zoned edge, consistent with its position between Belmont and West Farms. Recorded permits and the neighborhood's capacity figures sit side by side in the file without one explaining the other: headroom describes unused zoning allowance on existing lots, while the since-2000 share describes buildings that have already gone up. Reading them together only tells you both are true on the same set of blocks, not that one caused the other. Tremont also borders Claremont Village-Claremont (East), Crotona Park East, and Mount Hope. Construction-year, building-class, and capacity detail are available lot by lot rather than only as this neighborhood-wide summary.