M1-3A Zoning District — New York City
M1-3A is a contextual, low-density Light Manufacturing District (High Performance) (NYC Zoning Resolution § 11-122) in New York City.
M1-3A is a contextual, low-density Light Manufacturing District (High Performance) (NYC Zoning Resolution § 11-122) in New York City. It allows industrial and commercial uses; new residences are generally excluded. As of right, the maximum commercial FAR is 4. 1 tax lots citywide carry M1-3A as their primary zoning designation.
Records for lots carrying this designation cover a single tax lot citywide — the smallest footprint in this batch — built in 1895 and recorded entirely, 100%, within the prewar era. It runs to a median height of 1 story on 82,400 square feet of ground, coded as an institutional building under an asylums-and-homes classification and 0% residential. No flood-zone or historic-district status is recorded, and the file carries no reliable development-capacity coverage for this one lot.
What actually stands in this district
Some designations in this batch are mapped across thousands of tax lots; this one is mapped across exactly one. That single recorded lot is also among the oldest building starts in this batch, dating to 1895 on record — well over a century old — and its entire stock, 100%, falls before 1940. None of it, 0%, dates from the 1945-1975 postwar boom, and none, 0%, has been built since 2000. Where other designations in this file describe a pattern across a citywide footprint, this one describes a single parcel's own history, with no citywide share to average across and no wider pattern to compare it to beyond that one recorded lot.
The recorded building class on that lot is an institutional one, filed under an asylums-and-homes classification, covering the full recorded stock at 100%. Land use matches exactly: public-facility-and-institutional use also covers 100% of the ground. The lot is coded 0% residential on record, though the file still counts 1 recorded unit on it, consistent with a single non-residential structure rather than a housing building of any kind. There is no mix to describe here the way there is for larger designations — one lot, one building class, one land-use code, all at 100%, with nothing else on record to weigh against it.
The lot itself runs to 82,400 square feet — both the median and the 90th-percentile figure, since there is only the one parcel to measure, and a sizable footprint for a single tax lot, larger than the median recorded for several designations elsewhere in this batch that span far more ground in total. The building on it stands at a single recorded story, and 0% of the stock rises above 6 floors, a height figure that, again, describes just this one structure rather than a range across many buildings.
Neither flood-zone nor historic-district status is recorded on this lot: 0% for each. The file also carries no reliable development-capacity coverage here, an absence in the record rather than a claim about buildable room one way or the other — with only one lot on file, that absence covers the entire designation rather than a partial share of it, unlike designations elsewhere in this batch where such an absence touches only some lots and not others.
A designation mapped this narrowly still keeps its own page for the one recorded parcel, with building class, age, size, and flood and historic status all on file individually. The floor-area and height rules that govern this designation, whatever they permit on a lot this size, are set out with citations in the tables above, separate from the recorded stock described here.
Bulk rules for M1-3A
| Context | Commercial FAR | Community facility FAR | Manufacturing FAR | Heights | Citation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| As of right§ 43-132 single FAR for all uses; § 43-262 rear yard scales 10/15/20 ft with height above base plane. | 4 | 4 | 4 | Base 95 ft · Max 125 ft | NYC Zoning Resolution § 43-132, § 43-25, § 43-262, § 43-46 |
Values from the NYC Zoning Resolution, verified 2026-07-26; site-specific overlays, special districts, and waterfront rules can modify them — run a full lookup for a specific lot.
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.
M1-3A — quick questions
- What is the maximum commercial FAR in M1-3A?
- 4, as of right, per NYC Zoning Resolution § 43-132, § 43-25, § 43-262, § 43-46. Site-specific overlays, special districts, and waterfront rules can modify it — run a full lookup for a specific lot.
- Is M1-3A a contextual district?
- Yes. M1-3A is a contextual district — its bulk rules pair floor-area ceilings with prescribed base and maximum building heights intended to mirror existing neighborhood form.
- How many tax lots are zoned M1-3A?
- 1 tax lots citywide carry M1-3A as their primary zoning designation, per NYC municipal records as of 2026-07-11.
- How many lots carry this designation?
- Just 1, citywide — the smallest footprint of any designation in this batch.
- How old is the building on this lot?
- It dates to 1895 on record, placing its entire recorded stock, 100%, before 1940.
- What kind of building stands on this lot?
- An institutional building, classed on file under an asylums-and-homes classification, at a single recorded story and 0% residential coding.
- Is this lot in a flood zone or historic district?
- Neither is recorded: 0% for flood-zone status and 0% for historic-district status.
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What do the M1-3A rules mean for a specific lot?
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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.