BPC Zoning District — New York City

Few zoning designations in the file produced a building stock this uniformly recent. Across just 44 tax lots carrying this designation, the median construction year is 1997, and 0% of the recorded stock predates 1940 or falls inside the 1945-1975 postwar boom — a pattern with essentially no prewar or midcentury layer beneath it at all. That absence is itself unusual: most designations profiled in this file carry at least some older stock beneath their newer construction, however small a share, while this one shows none on record. Recent construction still leads even within that modern era: 31% of buildings on record date from 2000 or later, meaning even the newest decades keep adding to a stock that was already almost entirely built within living memory. Height matches that recency — a median of 24 stories, with 93% of recorded buildings rising above 6 floors, among the taller profiles any designation in this file can show.

The recorded composition leans toward condominiums, which make up 50% of building classes, followed by elevator apartment buildings at 20% and office buildings at 14% — a mix of housing towers and commercial space rather than the walk-up or rowhouse pattern common elsewhere in the file. Condominium ownership at that scale, paired with a meaningful office share, describes a vertical, mixed live-and-work fabric rather than a purely residential tower district. By land use, mixed residential-and-commercial parcels account for 47% of lots, multi-family elevator use another 23%, and commercial-and-office use 16% — a land-use file that closely tracks the building-class mix above it. Overall, 70% of lots are coded residential, and the file counts 8,852 homes across a footprint of only 44 lots — a striking amount of housing concentrated onto a small number of parcels, reflecting just how tall and how densely this stock is built.

Lot sizes here run large: a median of 29,700 square feet, with the largest recorded parcels reaching 97,076 square feet, scale consistent with the assembled ground that a stock this tall and this new tends to sit on. The federal flood map places 75% of these lots inside the mapped flood zone, a substantial majority for any designation profiled here — a statement about the regulatory boundary drawn on that map, not a ledger of which individual lots have actually taken on water. None of the lots, 0%, carry historic-district status on record, an absence consistent with a stock built almost entirely after the landmark-era construction recorded elsewhere in the file had already finished.

The file carries no reliable floor-area-capacity coverage for these lots, so no headroom or residual-FAR figure is available here — an absence in the record, not a claim about what stands or could stand on any given parcel. What is on record still runs deep without that measure: building class, year built, flood status, and lot size are all tracked for each of these 44 lots individually. The floor-area and height rules that actually govern this designation are set out, with their citations, in the tables above.