Queens.
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Homes
in Queens.

The numbers here cover the whole borough: 890,313 homes in 297,594 buildings. Houses for one or two families, detached and attached, hold 39 percent of homes, and walk-up apartment buildings hold 22 percent. Elevator buildings account for 28 percent and condominiums for 8 percent, while co-op apartments, counted within the walk-up and elevator types, come to 13 percent. Prewar buildings, those finished before 1940, hold about 40 percent of homes; buildings from 2000 or later hold 14 percent, the glass towers of Long Island City among them. The median home is in a building from 1950 and in a building of 3 floors, and buildings that reach 20 floors or more hold just 4.5 percent of homes.

Pickups in Queens begin at very different doors, and houses and walk-ups together hold 61 percent of homes. At a house, say which floor the rug is on, since a two family house may hold it on either level, and whether steps lead down to the street. In a walk-up, give the floor and describe how the stairs turn. In an elevator building, ask the managing office which entrance vendors use and when the service elevator runs, then write both in the Building access box of the pickup tag.