M1-2A/R7-2 Zoning District — New York City

All 48 tax lots carrying this designation record floor area below their allowance — 100% on record — with a median residual of 3.1 FAR, a wide and, unusually, universal recorded gap. That completeness is worth noting on its own: not just a majority but literally every recorded lot on this designation shows the same pattern of built floor area sitting below its allowance. Across 48 separate parcels, that kind of unanimous result is uncommon, since it takes only one lot built up to its full recorded allowance to break a 100% figure, and none here does.

The recorded building classes describe working, low-slung ground: garages lead at 31% of tracked classes, warehouses follow at 21%, and factory-and-industrial buildings add 17%. By land use, industrial-and-manufacturing use covers 41% of lots, parking facilities another 27%, and transportation-and-utility use 14% — categories that together account for the great majority of the mapped footprint and track closely with the building classes above. Garages, warehouses, and factory buildings leading the building-class file, next to industrial, parking, and transportation-and-utility use leading the land-use file, together describe a designation built almost entirely around working and storage functions.

Just 2% of these lots are coded residential, a low share, and together they record only 34 homes across the 48-lot footprint — a working, largely non-residential designation on the numbers, not a housing-focused one. Lot sizes run to a median of 8,047 square feet, with the 90th percentile reaching 33,470 square feet, a spread consistent with a mix of smaller working parcels and a few substantially larger assembled ones. With residential use this rare across 48 lots, the 34 recorded homes likely sit on only a small handful of the parcels rather than being spread across the footprint.

The file carries no reliable year-built or floor coverage for these 48 lots, an absence in the record rather than a claim that the buildings are undated or single-story. What is on record still runs deep on other measures: 0% of these lots sit inside the mapped federal flood zone, and 0% carry historic-district status, an absence on both counts across the entire 48-lot footprint. Between the universal recorded headroom, the industrial and working land use, and the near-absence of housing, this designation's 48 parcels describe a working footprint with substantial recorded room to add floor area, even without a confirmed age or height on file to compare it against. The floor-area rules that actually govern this designation are set out, with citations, in the tables above.