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M1-4A/R7-2 Zoning District — New York City

M1-4A/R7-2 is a zoning district on New York City's zoning map.

M1-4A/R7-2 is a zoning district on New York City's zoning map. It allows industrial and commercial uses; new residences are generally excluded. 2 tax lots citywide carry M1-4A/R7-2 as their primary zoning designation.

This designation is mapped across just 2 tax lots citywide, and the record is uniform in almost every respect: 100% of recorded buildings predate 1940, with a median construction year of 1913 — the oldest in this batch — and 0% built since 2000. Land use and building class are each 100% a single recorded category, and both lots share the identical lot size, 50,537 square feet, at both the median and the 90th percentile.

What actually stands in this district

Just 2 tax lots citywide carry this designation, and unlike most small designations in this file, these two do not split down the middle — they match. Every recorded building on them, 100%, predates 1940, and the median construction year is 1913, the oldest median in this batch of designations. None of the recorded stock, 0%, dates from the 1945-1975 postwar boom or from 2000 onward — a stock frozen, on record, well before the middle of the twentieth century, with nothing added or replaced in the decades since, and with none of the split-era pattern that shows up on so many other small designations in this file.

The land use and building-class records are each entirely uniform too: a single recorded land-use category accounts for 100% of these lots, and a single recorded building class accounts for 100% of the stock. That kind of total concentration — one era, one land use, one building class — is uncommon among the designations profiled in this file, most of which mix at least two or three recorded categories across age, use, and building type, even when their footprint is just as small as this one's.

Lot size tells the same story: both the median and the 90th-percentile figure land on exactly 50,537 square feet, meaning the two lots carrying this designation are recorded at the same size rather than spanning a range, unlike most percentile pairs in this file, which typically show a meaningful gap between a median and a 90th-percentile figure. None of these lots, 0%, are coded residential, though the file still counts 3 recorded units across them. Neither lot sits inside the mapped federal flood zone, 0%, and neither carries historic-district status, 0% — an entirely uniform record across every family of statistics the file tracks for this designation.

The development ledger shows full recorded headroom: 100% of lots record floor area below their allowance, at a median gap of 1.9 FAR. Paired with the uniform age, land use, building class, and lot size above, this designation's file is about as internally consistent as any two-lot record in this batch can be. For a designation this small and this uniform, per-lot records still carry the specifics for each of the 2 parcels individually, even where every designation-wide figure above happens to describe both of them equally; the floor-area and height rules that actually govern this designation are cited, with sources, in the tables above.

Bulk rules for M1-4A/R7-2

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.

M1-4A/R7-2 — quick questions

How many tax lots are zoned M1-4A/R7-2?
2 tax lots citywide carry M1-4A/R7-2 as their primary zoning designation, per NYC municipal records as of 2026-07-11.
How consistent is the building stock under this designation?
Unusually so: 100% of recorded buildings predate 1940, land use is 100% a single recorded category, and building class is 100% a single recorded class.
How many lots carry this designation?
Just 2 citywide, both recorded at the identical lot size of 50,537 square feet.
Is there recorded capacity to build more here?
Yes, fully: 100% of lots record floor area below their allowance, at a median gap of 1.9 FAR.
Are these lots in a flood zone?
No: 0% of lots carrying this designation sit inside the mapped federal flood zone.

Keep learning

What do the M1-4A/R7-2 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.