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M1-2/R7A Zoning District — New York City

M1-2/R7A is a zoning district on New York City's zoning map.

M1-2/R7A is a zoning district on New York City's zoning map. It allows industrial and commercial uses; new residences are generally excluded. 3 tax lots citywide carry M1-2/R7A as their primary zoning designation.

Every one of the 3 tax lots carrying this designation sits inside the mapped federal flood zone, 100% on record. What stands on them skews new and vertical: a median construction year of 2013, 67% of buildings dated since 2000, and a median height of 8 stories with 67% rising above 6 floors. 67% of the lots are coded residential, recording 420 homes.

What actually stands in this district

All three tax lots carrying this designation sit inside the mapped federal flood zone — 100% on record, the only measure among these lots' recorded facts that reaches a full share. That is a statement about where the federal map draws its boundary, not a record of which lots have actually taken on water, but at this designation every recorded parcel falls on the mapped side of that line. No other recorded figure for these lots reaches that same full share, which makes flood exposure the standout fact of a stock this small. With only three parcels carrying this designation, a single lot's status can define the whole file, and here all three land on the same side of the map.

The recorded stock is comparatively recent: a median construction year of 2013, with 67% of buildings dated 2000 or later and 33% recorded as predating 1940 — no share at all falls within the 1945-1975 postwar boom. Two eras, prewar and post-2000, account for essentially the whole file, with the middle of the twentieth century contributing nothing on record. The composition splits between elevator apartment buildings, 67% of tracked classes, and office buildings at 33%, a housing-and-workplace pairing rather than a single dominant use. That split between an older prewar minority and a newer majority, without any middle-century layer at all, leaves this designation's building history simpler to describe than most: essentially two moments of construction and nothing recorded in between.

Height on record runs upward for so few lots: a median of 8 stories, with 67% of recorded buildings rising above 6 floors. By land use, multi-family elevator buildings hold 67% of the parcels and commercial-and-office use the remaining 33%, tracking closely with the building-class mix above. 67% of the lots are coded residential, and together they record 420 homes — a meaningful unit count for a designation mapped across only three parcels. As with the building classes and land use above, the residential share lands on the same 67% figure a third time, underscoring just how tightly these three lots' records line up with one another.

Lot sizes here are uniform: both the median and the 90th percentile land on the same figure, 10,487 square feet, meaning the three lots carrying this designation are close to identical in size. The development ledger shows headroom on part of that footprint — 33% of lots record floor area below their allowance, though the median residual sits at 0 FAR — while 0% carry historic-district status on record. Taken together, the file describes three flood-mapped, mid-rise, largely residential parcels of nearly matching size, with only a third of them carrying recorded floor-area headroom. The floor-area, height, and setback rules that actually govern this designation are set out, with citations, in the tables above.

Bulk rules for M1-2/R7A

This code appears on the City's zoning map, but it doesn't have a standalone bulk-rules table — paired and non-standard map designations are governed at the individual-lot level. Run a lookup on a specific address for its governing rules.

About manufacturing districts

Manufacturing districts allow industrial and many commercial uses; new residences are generally excluded. Manufacturing bulk is governed by § 43- of the NYC Zoning Resolution.

Contextual districts pair their floor-area ceilings with prescribed base and maximum building heights so new buildings mirror existing neighborhood form; non-contextual districts govern the envelope through more general height and setback rules, such as sky exposure planes. Commercial districts also allow residences under the rules of a residential-equivalent district, while manufacturing districts generally exclude new residences. Overlays and special purpose districts can modify any of this on a specific lot.

Example lots zoned M1-2/R7A

Browse all 3 lots zoned M1-2/R7A

M1-2/R7A — quick questions

How many tax lots are zoned M1-2/R7A?
3 tax lots citywide carry M1-2/R7A as their primary zoning designation, per NYC municipal records as of 2026-07-11.
Are lots with this designation in a flood zone?
Yes, entirely: 100% of the 3 tax lots carrying this designation sit inside the mapped federal flood zone on record — a statement about the regulatory map, not a record of actual flooding.
How old are the buildings recorded under this designation?
A recent-and-prewar split: 67% of recorded buildings date from 2000 or later and 33% predate 1940, with 0% falling in the 1945-1975 postwar boom. The median construction year is 2013.
What kind of buildings stand on lots zoned this way?
A mix of elevator apartment buildings (67% of tracked classes) and office buildings (33%), at a median height of 8 stories with 67% rising above 6 floors.
How large are the lots carrying this designation?
Uniform: both the median and 90th-percentile lot size land on 10,487 square feet across the 3 tax lots on record.

Keep learning

What do the M1-2/R7A rules mean for a specific lot?

PearlAudit resolves the governing zoning for any NYC tax lot — district, overlays, special districts — and cites the Zoning Resolution section behind every rule claim.

District data: NYC municipal records (Department of City Planning) and the NYC Zoning Resolution. See our sources and methodology. Parcel data as of 2026-07-11.