C5-2A Zoning District — New York City

Most designations profiled on these pages have one dominant land use; this one does not. Commercial and office parcels hold 32% of the roughly 62 lots, mixed residential-commercial parcels follow closely at 31%, and multi-family elevator parcels add 15% — a genuinely mixed file rather than a stock organized around a single use. That near-even split between the top two categories, just one point apart, is unusual in this comparison set, where most designations show one land-use category running well ahead of the rest.

That mixed-use pattern sits on an old and heavily landmarked stock. Sixty-five percent of these lots fall inside a designated historic district, and 80% of recorded buildings predate 1940, with a median construction year of 1922. Only 10% of buildings fall inside the 1945-1975 postwar boom, and 7% have been built since 2000 — modern construction has barely touched this designation's recorded stock. A stock this old and this heavily landmarked, sitting on land use this evenly split, suggests the mixed-use pattern itself predates the modern zoning code rather than having developed under it.

By recorded building class, office buildings lead at 27%, elevator apartment buildings follow at 24%, and condominiums add 15%. Height runs to a median of 6 stories, with 48% of recorded buildings rising above 6 floors — split close to evenly between low- and higher-rise construction, without either pattern clearly winning out. Fifty-three percent of lots are recorded as residential, and the file counts 1,923 units on them — a modest total consistent with the designation's small overall footprint of roughly 62 lots citywide, spread across a genuinely mixed set of recorded building classes rather than concentrated in any one of them.

Lots run to a median of 6,512 square feet, with a 90th percentile of 15,015 — a narrower spread than many designations in this comparison set, suggesting a more uniform lot fabric than the wide small-to-large spreads recorded elsewhere in this batch. Recorded floor-area headroom covers 66% of lots, at a median residual of 5 FAR, a wide majority even set against a mixed-use land pattern and a heavily landmarked stock. Flood exposure is absent from the current record at 0%, which reflects how the federal map is drawn today, not a guarantee for any individual lot. Any one of these 62 lots — including those behind that 65% historic-district share — has its governing floor-area and height limits cited in full in the rules tables above.