NYC DOF FY2027 Final Assessment Roll

How NYC Was Built

1,167,962tax lots, grouped by the decade their building was constructed — a physical record of the city's growth spurts, one-family rowhouse booms, and modern condo towers.

Peak construction decade
1920s
192,358 still-standing lots
1920s residential units
716,448
Built in a single decade
1920s market value today
$304.8B
Current DOF assessment
No year-built on file
121,282
~10% of all lots

Lots, value, and units by decade built

Switch metric, then click any decade tile below the chart to open it in the Property Explorer.

Metric
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The 1920s boom

The 1920s produced more of NYC's still-standing stock than any other decade

192,358 lots — dominated by one-family homes — went up in that single decade, the classic outer-borough rowhouse and bungalow building boom that still defines much of Queens, Brooklyn, and the Bronx today.

Browse 1920s-built properties
The condo era

Condos became the dominant new-build type starting in the 1980s

Every decade from the 1980s onward except the 1990s has condo as its single most common new property type — a structural shift from the prewar one/two-family and rental-apartment stock built earlier in the century.

See condo share in the treemap
Curious how building age plays into value per square foot? See the $/sqft breakdown , or explore the ZIP league table.

14 decades of data shown, plus an Unknown bucket for missing year-built records.