These neighborhoods built the most

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NYC added 34,000 new homes in 2024: These neighborhoods built the most

Nearly 34,000 new homes were completed in New York City in 2024, the most units in a single year since 1965. The increase in housing units, up over 6,000 units from last year, is driven by a surge of permits filed in 2022 before the 421-a tax incentive expired. The Department of City Planning this week released an update to its Housing Database with new tools highlighting housing production across the city. While the data reveals Brooklyn had the highest number of newly constructed units of all the boroughs, Long Island City in Queens led the city with 1,859 new building units in 2024.

Housing production by community district. Map courtesy of the Department of City Planning

The city’s Housing Database contains housing construction and demolition jobs approved by the Department of Buildings that were filed or completed since January 1, 2010. To get a better sense of where new housing is being built, the city looked at data for community districts, City Council districts, and neighborhood tabulation areas (NTAs).

According to the data, Long Island City completed the most new building units in 2024, with a majority, or 1,386 of 1,859, in two projects in Hunter’s Point South, the site of a huge mixed-use development on the waterfront.

Here are the NYC neighborhoods that added the most units in new buildings in 2024:

Long Island City-Hunters Point (1,859 units)
Greenpoint (1,464 units)
Jamaica (1,292 units)
Downtown Brooklyn-DUMBO-Boerum Hill (1,233 units)
Bedford Park (995 units)
Coney Island-Sea Gate (841 units)
Hell’s Kitchen (812 units)
East Williamsburg (785 units)
Williamsburg (719 units)
Cypress Hills (704 units)

Once again, there was uneven housing production across city neighborhoods. In 2024, 10 community districts permitted as much housing as the other 49 districts combined and 19 districts permitted fewer than 100 homes.

Manhattan Community District 2, which includes Greenwich Village, Hudson Square, Little Italy, Noho, Soho, and the West Village, and Manhattan Community District 12, containing Inwood and Washington Heights, actually saw net-negative units permitted.

Manhattan Community District 5, including Union Square, Flatiron, Gramercy, Midtown South, and Times Square, added only 19 new homes. The Midtown South Mixed-Use Plan, which entered public review in January, aims to address the lack of housing production in this area by rezoning 42 blocks to allow for up to 10,000 new units.

The database also details the number of new building permits issued. In 2024, 15,626 units received permits, the lowest number since 2016. But with the passage last year of the City of Yes for Housing Opportunity, the city sees the chance to reverse the trends for more equitable housing growth.

“2024 was a banner year for housing production in New York, but we can’t rest on our laurels. That’s why the historic passage of City of Yes was so important, and why we’ll keep working to deliver the housing that New Yorkers need,” City Planning Director Dan Garodnick said.

“This updated, detailed data illustrates the progress we are making towards accomplishing our housing goals, and the work that remains to build a fairer, more affordable city.”

As part of the housing production snapshot, the city looked at all housing units in the pipeline, projects with active permits issued in previous years. While up to 90 percent of permitted projects are completed in four years, high interest rates and “limits on construction sector capacity,” will mean recently permitted projects could take longer to complete, according to the city.

The neighborhoods with the most housing units in the pipeline as of December 31, 2024 include: