Tribeca-Civic Center, Manhattan

Tribeca-Civic Center's roughly 870 tax lots sit at the intersection of two facts the records track separately: 10% fall inside the mapped high-risk floodplain, and 56% carry a historic-district designation — both among the higher readings in Manhattan. The flood figure describes the current federal map, not a forecast, but it's a meaningful share to note in a neighborhood built substantially before modern flood mapping existed. Few Manhattan neighborhoods in this set combine a flood-exposure share and a historic-district share both this high, which is one reason the neighborhood reads differently from much of the rest of Lower Manhattan's older core. The pairing is worth reading as two separate facts about the same footprint of tax lots rather than as a single combined risk-and-character score.

The building stock is old and tall by turns: the median building dates to 1900, with 85% of recorded structures predating 1940 and just 4% from the postwar boom between 1945 and 1975. At the same time, buildings reach a median height of 6 stories, and 33% are recorded above that mark — a scale unusual for a historic core, and a reminder that age and height describe different things in this file, neither one substituting for the other when reading a specific address. A prewar building on record can just as easily sit at 6 stories here as it can at half that.

Lots run large here: a median of 3,680 square feet, with a lot at the ninetieth percentile reaching 16,409 square feet, well above typical Manhattan parcels. Land-use coding shows 49% mixed residential-commercial use, 19% commercial and office use, and 14% multi-family elevator use. Building classes include 33% condominium and 15% elevator-apartment, with 14% office — a mix that reads as ground-floor commerce beneath upper-floor housing and workspace rather than a single dominant use, spread across some of the largest parcels in this set of neighborhood pages.

Development headroom covers 74% of lots at a median residual FAR of 1.2, and residential use accounts for 73% of lots, holding 16,257 units across the neighborhood's roughly 870 parcels. Tribeca-Civic Center borders Chinatown-Two Bridges, Financial District-Battery Park City, and SoHo-Little Italy-Hudson Square, three neighborhoods with their own distinct flood, historic-district, and land-use readings on file. Per-lot detail on flood status and residual FAR is available through PearlAudit's records lookup, useful for confirming whether any single address falls inside the 10% floodplain share, since that share is not spread evenly across every block.