SoHo-Little Italy-Hudson Square, Manhattan

Half of SoHo-Little Italy-Hudson Square's roughly 1,600 tax lots — 50% — carry a mixed residential-commercial land-use code, with another 21% coded commercial and office and 10% multi-family elevator. That land-use mix, more than any single building class, describes the neighborhood's ground-floor-retail, upper-floor character as the records see it, with residential space layered above commercial space on a majority of its parcels rather than existing as a separate residential district nearby, and it is why the land-use file reads so differently here from a neighborhood dominated by one- and two-family homes. Few of the other Manhattan pages in this set carry a mixed-use majority quite this large, and none pair it with quite the same historic-district coverage described below.

The building stock is old: the median building dates to 1900, 88% of recorded structures predate 1940, and only 3% fall inside the postwar boom between 1945 and 1975. Historic-district coverage runs to 49% of lots, and buildings reach a median height of 5 stories, with 19% recorded above 6 — meaningfully taller, on average, than the low-rise Bronx pages covered elsewhere in this set, though still well short of a genuinely tall Manhattan core. The historic-district and prewar figures move together closely enough here that the two facts are effectively describing the same physical fabric from two different angles, one about construction date and the other about legal protection.

Flood exposure covers 9% of lots on the current federal map, a fact about regulatory boundaries rather than a claim about the land's history. Building classes include 27% walk-up multi-family and 13% condominium. Lots run to a median of 2,540 square feet, with a lot at the ninetieth percentile reaching 9,850 square feet — a wider spread than most of the surrounding blocks, consistent with a mix of small tenement-era parcels and larger loft or commercial buildings sitting on the same blocks as narrower, older lots.

Development headroom covers 68% of lots at a median residual FAR of 1.1, and residential use accounts for 73% of lots, holding 21,117 units. Neighboring pages cover Chinatown-Two Bridges, East Village, Greenwich Village, Lower East Side, Tribeca-Civic Center, and West Village, each with its own historic-district and land-use profile. PearlAudit's records lookup carries the same figures down to the individual address, which is the level of detail a neighborhood-wide percentage can only summarize, particularly useful given how wide the lot-size spread runs across the neighborhood, from the smallest tenement parcel to the largest loft-building footprint.