Greenwich Village, Manhattan

Greenwich Village's roughly 1,100 tax lots show less room to build than most of their Manhattan neighbors: the median residual FAR sits at 0, and only 46% of lots carry any recorded headroom against their district allowance at all — one of the narrower margins covered in this set. That's a fact about built floor area against current zoning, not a judgment about the neighborhood, and it sits alongside a historic-district share wide enough to explain part of why so little of the built envelope remains unused, a pattern this set otherwise ties more to raw age than to landmark status alone. Few of the neighborhood pages in this batch pair a residual FAR this low with a headroom share this narrow.

The building stock is old even by Manhattan standards: the median building dates to 1896, with 87% of recorded structures predating 1940 and just 6% from the postwar boom between 1945 and 1975. Historic-district coverage runs to 73% of lots, among the higher shares in this set, and buildings reach a median height of 5 stories, with 27% recorded above 6, a taller profile than the historic-district share alone might suggest, and a reminder that a historic-district designation on its own says nothing about a building's recorded height.

Unlike several of its Manhattan neighbors, Greenwich Village shows 0% of lots in the mapped high-risk floodplain — an absence on the current federal map, not a claim that the area sits above every flood risk. Building classes include 25% walk-up multi-family, 16% elevator apartment, and 11% condominium. Lots run to a median of 2,625 square feet, with a lot at the ninetieth percentile reaching 11,985 square feet, a wide enough spread to include both narrow rowhouse parcels and larger apartment-building sites, a range wide enough that no single lot size can stand in for the neighborhood as a whole.

Land-use coding shows 36% mixed residential-commercial use and 17% multi-family walk-up. Residential use covers 77% of lots, holding 25,009 units across the neighborhood's roughly 1,100 parcels. Greenwich Village borders Chelsea-Hudson Yards, East Village, Gramercy, Lower East Side, Midtown South-Flatiron-Union Square, SoHo-Little Italy-Hudson Square, and West Village, each profiled with its own per-lot detail through PearlAudit, useful for checking any single address against the neighborhood-wide headroom figure above, since a 46% share still leaves a meaningful minority of lots with room to build, and no single block is likely to represent that minority evenly.