C8-2 Zoning District — New York City

Among the commercially zoned designations in this set, this one carries an unusually prewar-heavy stock: across roughly 950 tax lots, the median construction year is 1931 and 71% of recorded buildings predate 1940 — a deeper prewar share than several comparably sized designations in this file show. The 1945-to-1975 postwar boom added only 10% to the stock, while 12% of buildings on record date from 2000 or later, a modest but real trickle of recent construction layered on top of an old base rather than none at all, and enough on its own to keep the designation from reading as frozen in time. Read together, the 71% prewar share and the 10% boom-era share describe a stock that was substantially finished before the middle of the twentieth century and has only been lightly added to since.

The recorded classes point to a genuinely mixed commercial-and-residential fabric rather than a single-use pattern: store buildings lead at 20%, garages follow at 18%, and mixed residential-commercial buildings add 16% — a combination that, unlike the more purely commercial designations elsewhere in this batch, carries real housing stock alongside its stores and service space. By land use, commercial-and-office use covers 27% of lots, mixed residential-and-commercial use another 23%, and transportation-and-utility use 13%, a land-use file that echoes the building-class mix closely rather than telling a different story from it. No single use approaches a clear majority of the roughly 950 lots, which is itself a records fact worth noting for a designation carrying a commercial label.

36% of these roughly 950 lots are coded residential, and the file counts 3,252 homes on them — a meaningful residential presence layered onto what the classes above frame as primarily a commercial designation. Lots run modest in size, with a median of 3,930 square feet and the largest recorded parcels reaching 17,080 square feet. Buildings rise to a median of 2 stories, with 2% of the recorded stock climbing above 6 floors — a small but genuinely nonzero share, unlike the perfectly flat profiles some neighboring designations record, and a detail that separates this designation's file from the ones with no recorded height above that line at all.

Flood exposure here is minimal: just 1% of these lots sit inside the mapped federal Special Flood Hazard Area, a reading worth stating as a fact about the current federal map rather than a guarantee about water on any one parcel. None of the lots, 0%, carry historic-district status on record either, an absence that leaves this designation without the landmark-review layer some prewar-heavy designations elsewhere in this file carry.

The file carries no reliable floor-area-capacity coverage for this designation, so no headroom or residual-FAR figure can be cited here — an absence in the record rather than a claim about development potential either way. What is on record still runs deep without that measure: building class, land use, construction year, flood status, and lot size are all tracked here individually. The floor-area and height rules that actually govern this designation are set out, with their citations, in the tables above, lot by lot.