Street record · Brooklyn

East 21 Street

101 mapped DOB filings publish this street name in the current snapshot. They span Madison, Flatbush, Midwood.

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Qualified records101
Active-status records61
Latest status changeAug 31, 2026

What is on this street

The built record of East 21 Street

City Planning maps 891 tax lots on East 21 Street in Brooklyn, 81% of them one and two family homes. The oldest went up in 1899 and the newest in 2024. This describes the street as it stands, not the filings below.

Where 1920s sits in the city’s own timeline

Tax lots
891
Buildings
1,385
Homes
4,122
Typically built
1920s
Typical height
2–9 floors
Built area
4,709,285 sq ft

How the lots are used

  • One and two family homes726 of 891
  • Walk-up apartments100 of 891
  • Elevator apartments39 of 891

Zoning: R4, R3-2, R2 are the districts covering most of the street. A zoning district sets what may be built, not what is there now.

NYC Department of City Planning · Primary Land Use Tax Lot Output (PLUTO) · 64uk-42ks · read 2026-09-11

How to read this street page

A shared street name does not mean a shared project.

These records are grouped by the street name and borough published by DOB. Each address remains an independent filing unless its source record explicitly connects it to another site. Use this page to scan activity along the corridor, then open an individual filing for its exact status, scope and identifiers.

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On the market

23 homes on East 21 Street are listed today.

What the brokerages are currently asking along this street. These are the first 12. Each one links to the agent’s own page, where the price is live and the photographs are.

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Source snapshot accessed Sep 22, 2026. Street grouping is based on the normalized street-name field.