Midtown-Times Square, Manhattan

Midtown-Times Square's land-use file runs almost two-thirds commercial: 64% of the roughly 1,400 tax lots carry a commercial-and-office code, with 23% mixed residential-and-commercial and 4% under a separate classification. Building-class records echo that split — 41% of structures are classed as office buildings, 14% under a separate classification, and 10% as condominiums, a mix that puts most of the neighborhood's built floor area into commercial rather than residential use. Only 27% of lots carry a residential designation, yet those lots still hold 50,598 housing units on a median lot size of 5,900 square feet — a wide gap between a low residential-lot share and a high recorded unit count, since the residential lots that do exist here tend to be large, dense apartment buildings rather than a broad base of small residential parcels.

Height here reaches a median of 12 stories, with 62% of buildings rising above 6 floors — nearly two-thirds of the recorded stock, and a figure that separates this file from the low- and mid-rise residential neighborhoods surrounding it. None of the neighborhood's lots carry a mapped historic-district designation, 0% on file, despite a building stock that runs 72% prewar by year built — the age is there, but no design-review overlay accompanies it on record.

The age record is older than the commercial land use might suggest: a median construction year of 1925, and 72% of the recorded stock predates 1940. 11% of buildings fall into the 1945-to-1975 postwar-boom years, and 9% have been built since 2000 — a steady trickle of new construction layered onto a mostly early-century base of office and mixed-use buildings.

No lots here fall inside a mapped flood zone, 0% on file, a statement about the current flood map rather than the neighborhood's broader exposure to water. Development records show 60% of lots carrying recorded floor area below their zoning allowance, with a median residual of 2.4 in floor-area ratio still available on file across the district. Lot sizes run large against that 5,900-square-foot median, with the upper end of the range reaching 25,104 square feet — assembled commercial parcels rather than rowhouse-scale lots, and among the larger lot-size spreads recorded on these pages. The file borders Chelsea-Hudson Yards and Hell's Kitchen to the west, Midtown South-Flatiron-Union Square to the south, East Midtown-Turtle Bay and Murray Hill-Kips Bay to the east, and the Upper East Side-Carnegie Hill and Upper West Side-Lincoln Square further north.