Upper West Side-Lincoln Square, Manhattan

Lincoln Square's tax-lot file reads like a neighborhood shaped early and kept that way: 75% of its roughly 930 parcels sit inside a mapped historic district, and the median building on record dates to 1895 — among the oldest median construction years covered on these pages. Only 4% of the recorded stock has gone up since 2000, and just 6% falls into the 1945-to-1975 postwar building boom that reshaped so much of the city; here, that boom left comparatively little mark, and 84% of lots predate 1940 outright. Few neighborhoods on file combine that much recorded age with that much protected fabric at once.

The building-class file matches that age profile: 43% of lots carry a walk-up apartment classification, 20% an elevator-apartment classification, and 11% a condominium classification — a notably high combined elevator-and-condominium share for a neighborhood this old, pointing to conversions and infill layered onto an older base rather than a single uniform building era. Land-use coding tells a similar story about how the ground floors work: 36% of lots are coded multi-family walk-up, 16% multi-family elevator, and 24% mixed residential-and-commercial, meaning nearly a quarter of the neighborhood's parcels mix housing with retail or office space at street level, a share of ground-floor commercial use higher than in some of the more purely residential blocks bordering it toward Hell's Kitchen and Midtown-Times Square.

Height and capacity records show a median building of 5 stories, with 28% of the recorded stock rising above 6 stories — a share that points to genuine elevator-building density layered onto the older stock rather than a uniformly low-rise file. Development records find 78% of lots carrying unused floor-area capacity against their district allowance, with a median residual of 1 FAR point neighborhood-wide, meaning most parcels could add some floor area under current rules even though the file skews old. Lot sizes are compact at the middle of the distribution — a median of 2,510 square feet — but the largest lots on record reach 29,638 square feet, meaning a small number of markedly larger lots sit inside an otherwise fine-grained parcel pattern.

Flood mapping shows 2% of lots sitting inside the federally mapped floodplain — a small share, and one that describes the regulatory map rather than a claim about water at any specific address or building. The neighborhood's roughly 930 tax lots are heavily residential in use, 84% of lots, and carry 47,877 housing units on record in total, a substantial population for a neighborhood this compact in area. Lot-level detail behind each of these figures, including floor area and zoning conformance for individual parcels, is available through PearlAudit's property-record lookups, drawn from the same tax-lot file summarized above.