The four boroughs in this index have very different rental buildings. Manhattan’s buildings mix old and new; Brooklyn’s and Queens’ were almost all built in the last fifteen years; the Bronx’s are few and mostly complexes. Here is how the 239 large rental buildings in the index as of October 2026 break down, borough by borough. Current totals are always on the A–Z list of every building.
The four boroughs side by side
| Borough | Buildings | Apartments | Avg. apartments | Median floors | Median year | Built 2010 or later |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Manhattan | 163 | 83,113 | 510 | 30 | 2001 | 47 of 163 |
| Brooklyn | 44 | 19,345 | 440 | 32 | 2017 | 43 of 44 |
| Queens | 27 | 15,111 | 560 | 32 | 2017 | 23 of 27 |
| Bronx | 5 | 3,015 | 603 | 25 | 2021 | 3 of 5 |
Staten Island is not in the index yet. Medians are the middle value: half the buildings are above it, half below.
Manhattan: every era at once
Manhattan holds 163 of the 239 buildings and 69% of the apartments, spread across 29 neighborhoods and 40 management companies. It is the only borough where older buildings are a large share: 72 of its 163 buildings were completed before 2000, and only 47 since 2010. Its median building was completed in 2001.
It also holds both extremes. StuyTown, with 8,757 apartments across dozens of mid-rise buildings, is the largest record in the index, and 8 Spruce Street at 76 floors is the tallest. The single biggest neighborhood is Hell’s Kitchen, with 22 buildings and 14,511 apartments.
Brooklyn: almost entirely new
43 of Brooklyn’s 44 buildings were completed in 2010 or later; the median year is 2017. The exception is 180 Montague Apartments (1999). The stock is concentrated in Downtown Brooklyn, which alone has 16 buildings and 7,430 apartments, followed by Prospect Heights, Williamsburg and Greenpoint. Its tallest in the index is AVA DoBro at 58 floors and its largest is Brooklyn Crossing with 858 apartments.
Queens: fewer buildings, bigger ones
Queens has 27 buildings, none completed before 2002, and they are the largest on average: 560 apartments each, against 510 in Manhattan and 440 in Brooklyn. Most are in Long Island City (Hunters Point, Court Square and Dutch Kills), where the waterfront and the rezoned blocks around Court Square have produced some of the biggest rentals in the city. Jackson Park is the largest with 1,871 apartments, and Sven the tallest at 71 floors.
The Bronx: a small sample, mostly complexes
The index has only 5 Bronx records so far, and 4 of them are multi-building complexes, so its averages mean little yet. They are the new Bankside towers on the Harlem River in Mott Haven, Lincoln at Bankside and Third at Bankside, The Arches nearby, 1131 Ogden Avenue in Highbridge and the Briar Hill complex in Riverdale.
The biggest neighborhoods
Ranked by the number of apartments indexed in each:
| Neighborhood | Borough | Buildings | Apartments | Avg. apartments | Median year |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hell’s Kitchen | Manhattan | 22 | 14,511 | 660 | 2003 |
| Stuyvesant Town–Peter Cooper Village | Manhattan | 2 | 11,252 | 5,626 | 1947 |
| Financial District | Manhattan | 15 | 7,978 | 532 | 1971 |
| Downtown Brooklyn | Brooklyn | 16 | 7,430 | 464 | 2016 |
| Upper West Side | Manhattan | 16 | 5,839 | 365 | 1986 |
| Hunters Point | Queens | 10 | 5,754 | 575 | 2012 |
| Court Square | Queens | 8 | 5,187 | 648 | 2017 |
| Hudson Yards | Manhattan | 9 | 4,786 | 532 | 2017 |
| Chelsea | Manhattan | 14 | 4,499 | 321 | 2001 |
| Kips Bay | Manhattan | 5 | 4,189 | 838 | 1977 |
| Lincoln Square | Manhattan | 11 | 4,167 | 379 | 2010 |
| Carnegie Hill | Manhattan | 6 | 3,206 | 534 | 1992 |
Stuyvesant Town–Peter Cooper Village ranks second on just 2 records, because they are two of the largest complexes in the city. For how the city’s neighborhoods are defined in the first place, see Breaking New York Into Neighborhoods.
Questions this answers
Which borough has the newest apartment buildings?
Brooklyn and Queens. In this index, 43 of 44 Brooklyn buildings and 23 of 27 Queens buildings were completed in 2010 or later, against 47 of 163 in Manhattan.
Where are the biggest rental buildings outside Manhattan?
Long Island City in Queens. Its 23 buildings in the index average 594 apartments, and Jackson Park has 1,871. In Brooklyn, the largest concentration is Downtown Brooklyn.
How these figures were built: every number here comes from the building records in this index as of October 2026: 239 large rental buildings and complexes, 120,584 apartments in all. Each record lists the apartment count, floor count, year completed and the company that manages or owns it, and links to the source it was taken from. The index covers large rental buildings, not every building in the city, so a ranking here is a ranking of the index.