M1-5/R7-2 Zoning District — New York City

Lot size spreads more widely here than in most of the designations profiled in this batch: a median of 4,150 square feet against a 90th percentile of 24,366 square feet — a considerably wider gap between the typical parcel and the largest ones on record than this comparison set usually shows. That spread means the roughly 28 tax lots carrying this designation citywide are not a uniform fabric; a handful of larger holdings sit alongside many smaller ones, a pattern that shapes how the development figures below should be read.

By recorded class, office buildings lead at 21%, walk-up apartment buildings follow at 18%, and garages add 14% — a mixed commercial-and-housing file rather than a single dominant type. Land use runs 26% commercial-and-office, 19% multi-family walk-up, and 11% mixed residential-and-commercial. 30% of lots are recorded as residential, and the file counts 263 homes on them — a modest population consistent with the designation's small overall lot count.

The recorded stock is mostly prewar: a median construction year of 1926, with 77% of buildings predating 1940. Only 5% falls inside the 1945-1975 postwar boom, while 9% has gone up since 2000. Height runs to a median of 3 stories, with 14% of recorded buildings rising above 6 floors — a modest but real tall minority.

71% of these lots record floor area below their allowance, the lowest such incidence among the designations in this batch, though the typical gap itself is modest, a median residual of 1.4 FAR. None of the lots, 0%, sit inside the mapped federal flood zone or carry historic-district status on record. Each lot's own figures — and the FAR that actually governs it — are on its own page, cross-referenced against the citation-backed tables above.

Reading the age and height figures together sharpens the picture drawn above. A designation where the median construction year is 1926 and 77% of buildings predate 1940 would, on many of the designations profiled in this batch, describe a flat, low-rise fabric — yet 14% of the recorded stock here rises above 6 floors, a real minority of taller buildings sitting inside an otherwise old file. That combination, on just 28 tax lots, means a single taller building can meaningfully shift the height figures for the whole designation, a scale effect worth keeping in mind when comparing this profile against designations with thousands of lots elsewhere in this batch. The residential share, 30%, and the 263 recorded homes on file describe a designation where housing is present but plainly secondary to the office, walk-up, and garage uses that dominate the recorded building classes above.