C4-6 Zoning District — New York City

Few designations in this file show as wide a gap between a typical lot and an outsized one. The median lot here runs 2,724 square feet, but the 90th percentile reaches 45,739 — nearly the largest recorded spread on these pages, meaning a modest majority of small parcels sits alongside a meaningful minority of much larger ones. That kind of split usually signals an older, subdivided block pattern interrupted by a handful of assembled or institutional-scale sites, though the records describe the shape of the lots, not why any particular one grew large. A parcel at the median here would sit comfortably among the smaller lots profiled across this whole comparison set, while a parcel at the top of the range would rank among the largest — both patterns recorded under the same designation, on the same roughly 130 lots.

On top of that spread, recorded floor area falls short of the mapped allowance almost everywhere: 98% of lots show a residual, and the median gap is 7.2 FAR — the widest headroom figure in this comparison set. A number that size, on lots this uneven, likely reflects the larger parcels in the mix as much as the smaller ones; either way, it describes recorded floor area against a mapped ceiling, not a prediction that the gap will close. Combined with the lot-size spread above, the record suggests at least some of that headroom sits on the handful of large parcels near the top of the range, though the file does not break the residual figure out lot by lot at this summary level.

The building stock is old and modestly scaled: a median construction year of 1910, with 73% of recorded buildings predating 1940 and just 4% falling inside the 1945-1975 postwar boom, against 15% built since 2000. Height stays low across most of the stock — a median of 4 stories, with 15% of buildings rising above 6 floors. By recorded class, store buildings lead at 25%, mixed residential-commercial buildings follow at 20%, and walk-up apartment buildings add 13%; by land use, mixed residential-commercial parcels dominate at 55%, commercial and office parcels follow at 20%, and public and institutional uses record 9%. That land-use mix, weighted heavily toward mixed residential-commercial parcels, tracks closely with the building-class file, where no single class approaches a majority on its own.

Fifty-eight percent of the roughly 130 lots are residential, holding 3,315 units, while flood exposure is the highest recorded in this set at 12% — with just 3% of lots falling inside a designated historic district. That 12% flood share is a statement about the current federal map for these specific parcels, not a claim about which of them have actually taken on water, and it stands out precisely because most other designations profiled alongside this one record flood exposure in the low single digits or at zero. Each lot's own page carries its specific recorded facts; the floor-area and height rules that govern this designation are in the tables above, with citations.