M1-2/R7-2 Zoning District — New York City

Five tax lots citywide carry this designation, and on a footprint that small, the recorded stock reads almost as a single project rather than a district. The median construction year is 2020, and 80% of recorded buildings date from 2000 or later, leaving 0% of the stock tracing to before 1940 and 0% to the 1945-1975 postwar boom. There is, in other words, effectively no older layer beneath the newest one on record — with a footprint this small, even a single older building would register as a meaningful share of the total, and none does. What the record shows instead is a single, coherent construction era rather than several layered on top of one another, which is unusual even for a small footprint like this one.

The recorded composition tilts toward elevator apartment buildings, which account for 40% of the tracked building classes, with store buildings and condominiums each recording 20%. By land use, mixed residential-and-commercial parcels hold 60% of the lots, commercial-and-office use another 20%, and public-facility-or-institutional use a further 20% — a small footprint carrying housing, retail, and civic space at once rather than a single dominant use. Height on record matches the recent build date: a median of 13 stories, with 60% of recorded buildings rising above 6 floors, unusually tall for a designation mapped across only five parcels. That combination of a residential-commercial base, an institutional slice, and towers reaching well past the six-floor mark describes a small but vertically ambitious footprint rather than a purely residential one.

60% of these lots are coded residential, and together they record 556 homes, a sizable unit count to find concentrated on so few parcels and consistent with the elevator-apartment stock described above. The lots themselves run large: a median of 38,684 square feet, with the largest recorded parcel reaching 43,087 square feet, ground scale that matches both the recorded height and the mixed commercial-and-institutional uses layered onto it. Large ground and tall buildings together explain how so few tax lots can still record several hundred homes: the density here comes from vertical building on wide parcels rather than from many small lots packed close together.

The development ledger shows some recorded room within that footprint: 40% of these lots record floor area below their allowance, though the median residual sits at 0 FAR, meaning the measurable headroom concentrates on a smaller share of the five parcels rather than spreading evenly across all of them. None of the lots, 0%, sit inside the mapped federal flood zone, and none, 0%, carry historic-district status on record, consistent with a stock built almost entirely within the current century. Between the recent construction date, the residential majority, and the absence of any recorded flood or landmark constraint, the file describes a small, newly built footprint with a straightforward, single-era construction history. The floor-area and height rules that actually govern this designation are set out, with citations, in the tables above.