West Farms, The Bronx

West Farms' file carries a mapped floodplain share of 2% across its roughly 630 tax lots — a small figure in absolute terms, but a statement about the current federal flood boundary rather than a claim that the rest of the neighborhood sits free of water risk. The neighborhood's recorded zoning mixes an apartment-house designation with manufacturing rules and mapped parkland, reflecting its position along the Bronx River corridor where residential blocks give way to industrial-use land near the water. Development and headroom figures are not reliably tracked for West Farms in this file — the coverage gap means no residual-FAR or unused-capacity claim can be made for these lots, only that the gap itself is on record.

Building classes here run 28% walk-up apartment buildings, 23% two-family homes, and 13% elevator buildings, a spread that sits between rowhouse-scale blocks and larger apartment stock. The land-use file tracks closely: 26% of lots are logged for multifamily walk-up use, 25% for one- and two-family use, and 11% for multifamily elevator use. Lot sizes run smaller at the median, 3,000 square feet, though the largest recorded lots reach as high as 16,892 square feet — a handful of substantially larger parcels mixed among the smaller standard blocks that make up most of the neighborhood. Multifamily walk-up buildings and one- and two-family homes together account for most of the residential land use on file here, the kind of low- to mid-rise stock that predates the postwar high-rise era entirely.

Floors run to a median of 3, with 7% of recorded buildings rising above 6 stories. 71% of lots are logged as residential, carrying 9,059 housing units across the neighborhood. Historic-district coverage is recorded at 0% for West Farms. Construction dates read as more mixed than a single-era neighborhood: 56% of buildings predate 1940 and the median construction year is 1931, but the 1945-to-1975 postwar boom accounts for only 3% of the stock, while 21% of recorded buildings have gone up since 2000 — the most recent-leaning share of any construction era logged here.

West Farms borders Belmont and Tremont to the north and Crotona Park East, Pelham Parkway-Van Nest, and Soundview-Bruckner-Bronx River to the east and south, part of a Bronx River-adjacent cluster where park, industrial, and residential land uses sit close together on the map. Per-lot detail — construction year, building class, flood-zone status — is available for each of these roughly 630 parcels individually. That resolution matters here especially, since the neighborhood-wide averages blend blocks with very different flood and construction profiles.