M1-2/R7-1 Zoning District — New York City
M1-2/R7-1 is a zoning district on New York City's zoning map.
M1-2/R7-1 is a zoning district on New York City's zoning map. It allows industrial and commercial uses; new residences are generally excluded. 4 tax lots citywide carry M1-2/R7-1 as their primary zoning designation.
Of the designations profiled in this batch, only one shows the postwar boom outweighing the prewar years — and this is it: 67% of the recorded stock on these 4 tax lots was built during the 1945-1975 boom. 75% of the lots sit inside the mapped federal flood zone, the highest share in this batch, and all 4 record floor area below their allowance, with a median residual of 2.5 FAR.
What actually stands in this district
The smallest footprint in this batch, alongside one other, is the 4 tax lots that carry this designation — and the recorded stock on them breaks from the pattern the rest of the batch shows. The median construction year is 1949, and 67% of the buildings on record were built during the 1945-1975 postwar boom — the only designation in this batch where that era, rather than the prewar years, accounts for most of the stock. The remaining 33% predates 1940, and none of the recorded buildings date from 2000 or later.
The recorded building classes here are miscellaneous and industrial-adjacent: half of the stock, 50%, falls into a miscellaneous class, with warehouses and garages splitting the remainder evenly at 25% each. Coverage runs thin in one respect: the file has no reliable land-use breakdown for these 4 lots, so no percentage-by-use figure is available here — a gap in what was collected, not a description of how the ground is actually used. What is on record counts only 3 homes across the designation.
The federal flood map places 75% of these 4 lots inside the mapped flood zone — the highest recorded share of any designation in this batch — a statement about the regulatory boundary rather than a ledger of which parcels have actually taken on water. Lots here run large for a footprint this small: a median of 6,925 square feet, with the largest recorded parcel reaching 40,000 square feet. Heights stay low, at a median of 2 stories, with 0% of buildings rising above 6 floors.
Every one of these 4 lots, 100%, carries recorded floor area beneath its allowance, with a residual that runs to 2.5 FAR — a wide gap on a very small footprint, and the kind of figure that reads differently at this scale: a designation this small is a mapping decision about a handful of parcels rather than a neighborhood pattern. None of the lots, 0%, carry historic-district status on record. With only four lots on record, each one is close to its own case study; the floor-area and height rules that govern the designation are cited, in full, in the tables above.
Bulk rules for M1-2/R7-1
This code appears on the City's zoning map, but it doesn't have a standalone bulk-rules table — paired and non-standard map designations are governed at the individual-lot level. Run a lookup on a specific address for its governing rules.
About manufacturing districts
Manufacturing districts allow industrial and many commercial uses; new residences are generally excluded. Manufacturing bulk is governed by § 43- of the NYC Zoning Resolution.
Contextual districts pair their floor-area ceilings with prescribed base and maximum building heights so new buildings mirror existing neighborhood form; non-contextual districts govern the envelope through more general height and setback rules, such as sky exposure planes. Commercial districts also allow residences under the rules of a residential-equivalent district, while manufacturing districts generally exclude new residences. Overlays and special purpose districts can modify any of this on a specific lot.
Example lots zoned M1-2/R7-1
- 36-30 College Point Blvd — 120,000 sq ft lot, 0.92 built FAR, built 1928
- 35-32 College Point Blvd — 40,000 sq ft lot, 0.07 built FAR, built 1950
- 35-50i College Point Blvd — 6,230 sq ft lot, 0 built FAR
M1-2/R7-1 — quick questions
- How many tax lots are zoned M1-2/R7-1?
- 4 tax lots citywide carry M1-2/R7-1 as their primary zoning designation, per NYC municipal records as of 2026-07-11.
- How many tax lots carry this designation?
- Just 4 citywide, one of the smallest footprints in this batch.
- How old are the buildings recorded under this designation?
- Mostly postwar: the median construction year is 1949, and 67% of the recorded stock was built during the 1945-1975 boom, with the remaining 33% predating 1940.
- Are lots with this designation in a flood zone?
- Yes, substantially: 75% of these 4 lots sit inside the mapped federal flood zone, the highest share of any designation in this batch.
- What kind of buildings stand on lots carrying this designation?
- Half of the recorded stock, 50%, falls into a miscellaneous building class, with warehouses and garages splitting the rest evenly at 25% each. The file carries no reliable land-use coverage for these lots.
- Is there recorded room to build more on these lots?
- Yes: all 4 lots record floor area below their allowance, with a median residual of 2.5 FAR.
Keep learning
What do the M1-2/R7-1 rules mean for a specific lot?
PearlAudit resolves the governing zoning for any NYC tax lot — district, overlays, special districts — and cites the Zoning Resolution section behind every rule claim.
District data: NYC municipal records (Department of City Planning) and the NYC Zoning Resolution. See our sources and methodology. Parcel data as of 2026-07-11.