Westchester Square, The Bronx

Westchester Square's roughly 1,800 tax lots carry 6,216 recorded housing units, the smallest total among the neighborhoods covered in this file — even though its lot sizes stretch wider than most. The median lot runs 2,500 square feet, typical for the area, but the file's upper range reaches much further: one lot in ten measures 9,550 square feet or more, nearly four times the median, pointing to a handful of larger parcels sitting alongside a field of smaller ones. That spread, paired with the neighborhood's modest total unit count, suggests a file built around a few larger sites set into an otherwise ordinary parcel fabric. Nothing in the neighborhood-wide summary explains what sits on those larger parcels specifically — that is a question the per-lot detail answers. Few files in this batch pair an ordinary median lot size with a unit total this low, which is part of what makes the comparison worth making at all.

Construction here reads mostly prewar: the median building dates to 1926, and 67% of the recorded stock predates 1940. The postwar boom years, between 1945 and 1975, added 19% more, and just 10% of buildings have gone up since 2000. No lots are recorded inside a historic district, so none of that age profile carries a preservation designation on file — the age here is simply age, not a protected status.

One- and two-family homes cover 48% of the land-use file, multi-family walk-up buildings 24%, and commercial and office use 7% — a modest commercial presence set against the neighborhood's largely residential record. Residential use covers 79% of lots overall. Two-family homes are the leading building class at 35%, followed by walk-up apartments at 25% and one-family homes at 12%. The median building height is 2 stories, and none exceed 6 floors, a low-rise profile consistent across nearly every class recorded here. The commercial share, small as it is, still registers as one of the more visible non-residential land uses in this cluster of neighborhoods. Two-family and walk-up building classes together account for a clear majority of recorded structures, echoing the land-use split almost directly.

Development headroom is broad: 86% of lots carry less floor area than their district currently permits, with a median residual of 0.8 additional FAR. Flood exposure covers 2% of lots on the current federal map. Westchester Square borders Castle Hill-Unionport, Morris Park, Parkchester, Pelham Parkway-Van Nest, and Throgs Neck-Schuylerville, all searchable on these pages down to the individual tax lot.