Gramercy, Manhattan

Gramercy's age record is dominated by construction that predates the modern building code entirely. The median building here dates to 1910, and 80% of the recorded stock predates 1940. 11% of buildings fall into the 1945-to-1975 postwar-boom years, and just 6% have been built since 2000, the smallest of the three recorded construction-era shares in this file. Put together, those three figures describe a neighborhood whose building envelope was mostly set decades ago and has changed only at the margins since.

Land-use codes lean toward mixed residential-and-commercial use at 33% of the roughly 770 tax lots, with 21% recorded as plain multi-family walk-up use and 14% as multi-family elevator use. Building-class records show 30% of structures as walk-up apartment buildings, 20% as elevator apartment buildings, and 10% under a separate classification. 79% of lots carry a residential designation, and those lots hold 21,664 housing units on a median lot size of 2,581 square feet, a rowhouse-to-mid-rise scale consistent with the walk-up- and elevator-apartment-heavy building-class mix above.

Height stays moderate across the neighborhood: a median of 5 stories, with 26% of buildings rising above 6 floors, a bigger high-rise slice than the low, uniform rowhouse profile of some nearby files. 16% of lots sit inside a mapped historic district, a designation layered onto a building stock that is already 80% prewar by year built. No lots here fall inside a mapped flood zone, 0% on file — a record of the current flood map rather than a guarantee against water reaching any given basement or ground floor.

Development records show 65% of lots carrying recorded floor area below their zoning allowance, with a median residual of 0.8 in floor-area ratio, a modest but real margin sitting beneath an otherwise built-out, prewar streetscape where the 6% recent-construction share suggests few lots have used that margin yet. Lot sizes cluster around that 2,581-square-foot median, with the upper end of the range reaching 12,850 square feet. The neighborhood borders the East Village and Greenwich Village to the west, Midtown South-Flatiron-Union Square to the north, Murray Hill-Kips Bay to the east, and Stuyvesant Town-Peter Cooper Village directly across its eastern edge — a run of neighborhoods that, taken together, show just how much a building-age and land-use profile can shift from one recorded tax lot to the next across a short walk.