Brooklyn.
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Homes
in Brooklyn.

Brooklyn has 1,115,989 homes in 249,566 residential buildings, and no single type of building holds most of them. Walk-ups and elevator buildings each account for 31 percent, and houses for one or two families for 22 percent, from the brownstone rows around Prospect Park to the freestanding houses of Victorian Flatbush. Condominiums hold 10 percent of homes and co-ops 7 percent. The median home is in a building of 4 floors, and only 6 percent of homes are in buildings of 20 floors or more.

Buildings finished before 1940 hold 57 percent of homes, with 1931 as the median year built, while 18 percent are in buildings from 2000 or later, the towers on the East River waterfront among them.

Most Brooklyn pickups start a few flights above the street, or right at it. With the median home in a building of 4 floors, and 94 percent of homes in buildings under 20 floors, a rug usually leaves by the stairs and the front door, and where there is an elevator the ride down is short. Use the Building access line on the pickup tag for whatever shapes the carry: the floor, a stoop or a tight landing, and the hours a super or front desk lets vendors in.