C8-3 Zoning District — New York City

This designation's roughly 310 tax lots carry an old building stock with an unusual amount of recent activity layered onto it. The median construction year is 1927 and 70% of recorded buildings predate 1940, deep prewar readings in their own right — but the 1945-to-1975 postwar boom claims only 8% of the stock, well behind the 15% share built since 2000. That ordering, recent construction outpacing the boom era rather than trailing it, is not the pattern most designations in this file show, where the boom years typically outweigh whatever has been added since, making this designation's timeline read almost backward by comparison. A stock this old, still gaining new construction at a 15% clip, describes ongoing replacement rather than a fabric that stopped changing decades ago.

Garages lead the recorded building classes at 24%, ahead of store buildings at 14% and walk-up apartment buildings at 12% — a commercial-and-service mix with a genuine residential layer underneath it rather than a purely commercial file. By land use, commercial-and-office use covers 20% of lots, transportation-and-utility use 15%, and one- and two-family use 13%, a land-use split that broadly mirrors the building-class order above it without departing from it in any obvious way. None of the recorded categories, on either measure, approaches even a bare majority of the roughly 310 parcels.

32% of these lots are coded residential, and the file counts 1,488 homes on them — a records total that puts real housing behind a designation whose leading classes read as commercial and service-oriented. Lots run somewhat larger than some comparably classed designations, with a median of 5,378 square feet and the largest recorded parcels reaching 22,983 square feet — room enough, on the evidence, for the low-rise stock the height figures below describe. Buildings rise to a median of 2 stories, with 3% of the recorded stock above 6 floors, a small minority but not a flat zero the way some neighboring designations record.

Flood exposure is minimal on record: just 1% of these roughly 310 lots sit inside the mapped federal Special Flood Hazard Area, a statement about the current federal map rather than a ledger of which parcels have actually taken on water. None of the lots, 0%, carry historic-district status either, leaving this designation without the landmark-review layer that touches some prewar-heavy designations 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 — an absence in the record, not a claim about development potential either way. Building class, land use, construction year, height, flood status, and lot size are all tracked individually across these roughly 310 lots even without that measure. The floor-area and height rules that actually govern this designation are set out, with their citations, in the tables above.