C1-8 Zoning District — New York City

This designation is one of the rarest in the file by footprint: just 13 tax lots citywide carry it. What stands on those lots stopped changing, on record, some time ago — 0% of the recorded stock dates from 2000 or later, meaning nothing on these 13 parcels has been recorded as new construction in over two decades. The construction record instead splits between two older eras: 62% of buildings predate 1940, and 31% date from the 1945-1975 postwar boom — a notably high boom-era share for so small a sample of lots. That stall is one of the more complete examples of frozen construction activity recorded in this batch, and a designation this rare offers little room for the kind of internal variation larger designations typically show.

Elevator apartment buildings lead the recorded classes at 46%, ahead of mixed residential-and-commercial buildings at 23% and walk-up apartment buildings at 8%. That class order — elevator buildings well ahead of any other type — is consistent with the taller profile the height figures below describe. By land use, mixed residential-and-commercial use covers 46% of lots, multi-family elevator use 31%, and commercial-and-office use 8%. Overall, 77% of lots are coded residential, and the file counts 424 homes across the 13 parcels — a small but concentrated total given how few lots carry this designation in the first place.

Lots run large for so small a designation: a median of 5,875 square feet, with the largest recorded parcels reaching 13,186 square feet. Buildings rise to a median of 6 stories, with 38% recorded above 6 floors — a genuinely tall profile for a designation this rare. None of the 13 lots, 0%, sit inside the mapped federal flood zone or carry historic-district status, so neither regulatory overlay adds anything further to this small sample; the recorded floor-area and height figures stand as the only meaningful distinguishing measures here. That absence describes what the file shows for these 13 lots specifically, not any broader claim about the surrounding area.

Development room is broad: 85% of lots record floor area below their allowance, with a median residual of 2.7 FAR, one of the wider recorded gaps in the file. For a footprint this small, that recorded margin covers a meaningful share of what few lots there are to consider. For any of these 13 addresses, the underlying record — class, year, flood status — is available lot by lot, and the governing floor-area rules sit in the tables above with full citations.