C8-4 Zoning District — New York City

This designation's roughly 100 tax lots carry the oldest and most residential-leaning stock among its closely related peers in this batch: the median construction year is 1920, with 73% of recorded buildings predating 1940 — the deepest prewar share this batch's commercially zoned designations show. The 1945-to-1975 postwar boom added only 10% to the stock, and 9% of buildings on record date from 2000 or later, a modest trickle of recent construction on an otherwise very old base that has not been substantially rebuilt since. A median year two decades earlier than several comparably labeled designations in this batch, paired with a 73% prewar share, places this file among the oldest recorded here.

Walk-up apartment buildings lead the recorded classes at 38%, well ahead of hotels and office buildings, each recorded at 9% — a residential-heavy mix that stands apart from the garage-and-store pattern common elsewhere among comparable designations. By land use, multi-family walk-up use covers 28% of lots, commercial-and-office use 26%, and mixed residential-and-commercial use 13%, a land-use file that leans further toward housing than the building-class order alone might suggest. Together the two measures describe a designation that reads far more like a residential neighborhood, on the ground, than its commercial framing alone would imply.

47% of these lots are coded residential — the highest share among the closely related designations in this batch — and the file counts 1,558 homes on them. Lots run modest in size, with a median of 4,035 square feet and the largest recorded parcels reaching 22,543 square feet. Buildings rise to a median of 5 stories, with 19% of the recorded stock climbing above 6 floors, notably taller than the flatter, garage-led designations nearby, a height difference that lines up with the walk-up-led composition above rather than sitting apart from it.

Flood mapping places 17% of these roughly 100 lots inside the mapped federal Special Flood Hazard Area, the highest recorded share among comparable designations in this batch, while none, 0%, carry historic-district status — an old, residential-leaning stock that nonetheless carries no landmark-review layer on record. That flood reading describes the current federal map rather than a history of water on any specific lot.

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, not a claim about development potential. What is on record still runs deep: building class, land use, construction year, height, and flood status are all tracked individually for these roughly 100 lots. The floor-area and height rules that actually govern this designation are set out, with their citations, in the tables above.