C8-1 Zoning District — New York City

Across roughly 1,800 tax lots — one of the larger footprints in this batch — the recorded building stock leans decisively commercial and low-rise rather than residential. Garages lead the recorded classes at 29%, store buildings follow at 20%, and two-family homes add a further 8%, a mix weighted toward service and retail space rather than any dense residential or industrial pattern. By land use, commercial-and-office use covers 26% of lots, transportation-and-utility use another 18%, and one- and two-family use 14% — a land-use file that tracks the building-class order closely rather than diverging from it, which is not something every designation in this set can show.

The construction record centers almost exactly on this profile's own dividing line: the median year built is 1940, with 49% of the recorded stock predating that year and 25% built during the 1945-to-1975 postwar boom — a stock split close to evenly between the prewar era and the decades that followed it, rather than clustering heavily in one or the other the way several designations elsewhere in this file do. A further 11% of buildings on record date from 2000 or later, a real but clearly minority share of ongoing construction layered onto an otherwise much older base, and one that leaves the designation's overall profile reading substantially prewar-and-boom rather than modern.

Only 27% of these roughly 1,800 lots are coded residential, yet the file counts 5,158 homes on them — a records detail worth noting on its own terms, since it means whatever housing this designation carries is concentrated on a clear minority of its parcels rather than spread evenly across the full footprint. Lots run modest in size, with a median of 5,000 square feet and the largest recorded parcels reaching 23,100 square feet, room enough for the low-rise stock the height figures describe but nowhere near the scale some more industrial designations show. The recorded stock stays low across the board: a median of just 1 story, with 0% of buildings rising above 6 floors, a flat profile from top to bottom.

Flood mapping places 12% of these lots inside the mapped federal Special Flood Hazard Area, a minority share but not a negligible one for a designation of this size; none of the lots, 0%, carry historic-district status on record, an absence that sets this designation apart from some of the landmark-heavy districts profiled elsewhere in this file. The file carries no reliable floor-area-capacity coverage for this designation, so no headroom or residual-FAR figure is available here — an absence in the record rather than a claim about what stands or could stand on any given parcel. The floor-area and height rules that actually govern this designation are set out, with their citations, in the tables above.