M1-1A/R6B Zoning District — New York City

Only 11 tax lots citywide carry this designation, one of the smallest footprints profiled in this file, and every recorded building on them is old. The median construction year is 1910, and 100% of the stock predates 1940 — a complete prewar record with nothing built later to qualify it. Neither of the newer eras registers at all: 0% of buildings fall inside the 1945-1975 postwar boom, and 0% have gone up since 2000, meaning eight decades of citywide construction cycles have added nothing measurable to this particular footprint. Whatever stood on this small footprint a century ago is, on the current record, still substantially what stands there now — a stock defined by its age rather than by any layer added afterward.

The recorded land use here runs toward work rather than housing: commercial and office use covers 36% of lots, industrial use another 27%, and parking 18% — together accounting for the large majority of this small footprint and leaving only 9% of these 11 lots coded residential. Just 12 homes are on file across the entire designation, a modest count that follows directly from how few of these lots carry any residential use at all. The building classes on record split three ways evenly: factory and industrial buildings, garages, and store buildings each account for 18% of the recorded stock, with the remainder spread across other classes. Read together, the land-use figures and the building-class figures describe the same thing from two angles — a small, work-oriented pocket rather than a housing block.

Lots here run to a median of 4,115 square feet, with the largest recorded parcel reaching 8,550 square feet — modest by citywide standards but ample for the low, work-oriented buildings the records describe. Height stays low across the footprint: a median of 2 stories, and 0% of buildings rising above 6 floors, consistent with the industrial and commercial uses recorded above. Recorded floor area falls short of the citywide allowance on 82% of these 11 lots, and the typical gap runs to 0.9 FAR — a meaningful share of recorded capacity concentrated onto a very small number of parcels, even if the absolute square footage involved is modest given the lot sizes on file.

None of these lots, 0%, sit inside the mapped federal flood zone, and none, 0%, carry historic-district status on record — an unsurprising pairing for a footprint this small, this uniformly old, and this thoroughly non-residential. Between the age of the stock, the low height, and the absence of any flood or landmark overlay, the records describe a settled, low-lying pocket of the city that has changed very little since it was first built. With a footprint this small, every recorded lot amounts to close to its own case file; the floor-area and height limits that actually govern the designation are cited, lot by lot, in the tables above.