West Village, Manhattan

No neighborhood gathered in this set predates West Village: the median building here dates to 1873, and 92% of recorded structures went up before 1940 — both the oldest readings covered. Only 3% has been built since 2000, and just 3% falls inside the postwar boom between 1945 and 1975, so the file describes a neighborhood that was substantially finished well over a century ago and has changed little since, at least on the construction-year evidence the records carry, and it is a rarer combination in this set than either fact would be on its own. Nothing in the age columns points to any later rebuilding wave of consequence.

Historic-district coverage reaches 87% of the neighborhood's roughly 2,000 tax lots, the widest share in this set, alongside a building stock topping out at a median height of 4 stories, with just 6% recorded above 6. Building classes run 35% walk-up multi-family, 15% one-family, and 14% mixed residential-commercial — a low-rise, small-building mix consistent with the age of the stock and with the historic-district coverage sitting over most of it, and rarely broken by anything taller than a handful of exceptions. That combination of small building classes and wide historic-district coverage is about as consistent a pairing as this set of neighborhood pages produces.

Lots here run smaller than most of Manhattan's other profiled neighborhoods, at a median of 2,065 square feet, with a lot at the ninetieth percentile reaching 7,744 square feet. Land-use coding shows 30% mixed residential-commercial use, 28% multi-family walk-up, and 23% one- and two-family use. Flood exposure covers 3% of lots on the current federal map, a modest share relative to some of its Manhattan neighbors, most of whom carry a higher flood-zone share on the same federal map. The small lot sizes here track closely with the small-building classes described above, another point where the file's separate stat families reinforce one another.

Development headroom covers 51% of lots at a median residual FAR of 0.1 — modest room to build, consistent with a neighborhood built close to its historic footprint. Residential use accounts for 88% of lots, holding 26,642 units across roughly 2,000 parcels, bordering Chelsea-Hudson Yards, Greenwich Village, Midtown South-Flatiron-Union Square, and SoHo-Little Italy-Hudson Square. PearlAudit's records lookup breaks these figures down to the individual lot, useful given how much variation a 92%-prewar file can still hold block to block, from the smallest walk-up to the rare larger building on the same street.