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M1-2A/R7A Zoning District — New York City

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

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

Just 2 tax lots citywide carry this designation, and both record floor area below their allowance, 100% on record, with a median residual of 3.8 FAR. The building classes on record split evenly between utility properties and a miscellaneous class, each 50%, on lots with a median size of 29,463 square feet. The file carries no reliable year-built, floor, land-use, or residential-share coverage for these two parcels — only a single recorded home.

What actually stands in this district

Only two tax lots citywide carry this designation, a small footprint, and most of the usual measures this file tracks are simply not available for them: no reliable year-built coverage, no floor coverage, no land-use breakdown, and no residential-share figure. What survives on so thin a file is still worth stating plainly rather than filled in by guesswork, and what survives is consistent and complete on its own terms. With a footprint of only two parcels, gaps in one field can leave the file with almost nothing to say on that measure, which is exactly what happened here for age, height, land use, and residential share alike.

Both recorded lots show floor area below their allowance — 100% on record — with a median residual of 3.8 FAR. The building classes split evenly: utility properties account for 50% of tracked classes and a miscellaneous building class the other 50%, on lots with a median size of 29,463 square feet — both the median and the 90th percentile land on that same figure, meaning the two parcels are close in scale to one another. A perfectly even split between two building classes, on two lots of nearly matching size, is about as simple a picture as a two-lot footprint can present.

Only a single home is recorded on either of these two parcels, and the file does not carry a residential-share percentage for them at all — an absence rather than a zero, since a genuine 0% would still be a recorded figure and this field simply has none. Land use is similarly uncovered: no land-use breakdown is available for these lots, another gap rather than a claim about what stands here. Between the utility-and-miscellaneous building classes and the single recorded home, the two lots read as non-residential in practice even though the file cannot confirm that with a residential-share figure.

What the file does confirm: 0% of these two lots sit inside the mapped federal flood zone, and 0% carry historic-district status. For a designation mapped across so few parcels, the file is candid about what it does and does not know — recorded floor area and building class on one hand, and open gaps in age, height, land use, and residential share on the other. That combination of confirmed capacity data and honest gaps elsewhere is itself the clearest picture this two-lot footprint can offer. The floor-area rules that actually govern this designation are set out, with citations, in the tables above.

Bulk rules for M1-2A/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 M1-2A/R7A

Browse all 2 lots zoned M1-2A/R7A

M1-2A/R7A — quick questions

How many tax lots are zoned M1-2A/R7A?
2 tax lots citywide carry M1-2A/R7A as their primary zoning designation, per NYC municipal records as of 2026-07-11.
How many lots carry this designation?
Just 2 tax lots citywide, a small mapped footprint whose two parcels carry complete recorded floor-area and building-class data.
Is there room to build on lots carrying this designation?
Yes, on both recorded lots: 100% show floor area below their allowance, with a median residual of 3.8 FAR.
How old are the buildings recorded under this designation?
Not reliably known: the file carries no year-built coverage for either of these two tax lots.
What kind of buildings stand on lots zoned this way?
Utility properties and a miscellaneous building class, each accounting for 50% of the tracked building classes on these two lots.

Keep learning

What do the M1-2A/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.