Greenpoint.
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Homes
in Greenpoint.

The numbers here cover the Greenpoint area as City Planning's land use records draw it: 26,728 homes in 4,069 residential buildings. Walk-ups account for 44 percent of the homes, and the median home sits in a building 4 floors tall; the older blocks are low, with wood frame and brick row houses among them. Prewar construction, meaning anything finished before 1940, accounts for 57 percent, and 1931 is the median year built. New construction counts for a lot too: buildings from 2000 or later hold 41 percent of the homes, a group that takes in the towers along the East River, and a fifth of the homes are in towers that rise 20 floors or more.

Many Greenpoint pickups start in a walk-up, the kind of building that holds 44 percent of the neighborhood's homes, on a stair that turns sharply or runs past a neighbor's door. Note the floor and the length of the rug, and say if a banister or a tight corner might catch a long roll. The waterfront towers work differently: the building sets the route, often a side entrance and a booked elevator, with a desk that logs vendors. Write those rules under Building access on the tag, with any hours the building allows.