Financial District-Battery Park City, Manhattan

Most neighborhood files describe many small properties; this one describes few large ones. Roughly 570 tax lots cover the Financial District and Battery Park City — a fraction of a typical outer-borough neighborhood's count — but the median building among them rises 9 stories, and 59% of the stock exceeds 6 floors. The median lot spans 7,160 square feet and the 90th percentile reaches 45,203, full-block scale. Everything else in the record follows from that inversion: fewer files, each carrying more.

The composition documents Lower Manhattan's long conversion. Condominium buildings lead the recorded classes at 22%, office buildings hold 20%, and elevator apartment buildings 13% — while by land use, mixed residential-commercial lots (37%) now outnumber pure commercial-office lots (33%), with multi-family elevator buildings at 9%. Only 49% of lots are residential, the lowest share among these profiled neighborhoods, yet they hold 44,402 recorded units. The dates tell the same story from another angle: a median construction year of 1924 anchors the district's masonry-tower generation, 61% of the stock predates 1940 — and 14% has arrived since 2000, the recorded signature of towers rising and offices becoming housing.

Water is the second defining fact: 47% of lots fall inside the federal Special Flood Hazard Area. At the island's tip, the mapped boundary runs through the neighborhood rather than around it, so flood status here is genuinely parcel-by-parcel — two buildings a block apart can carry different mandates. For ground floors, basements, and building systems in a district of towers, the distinction is operational, and each lot's page reports its own.

The development ledger runs larger than Manhattan intuition suggests: 60% of lots record capacity beyond what stands, with a median residual of 1.8 FAR — substantial figures that reflect both the district's enormous commercial allowances and its stock of older mid-rises standing below them. An 18% historic-district share adds a preservation layer over the oldest blocks, so the largest paper capacity and the strictest review requirements sometimes share an address. Every figure on this page derives from the city's assessment roll and federal flood mapping as of the date shown, and the per-lot records carry the building-by-building specifics.