M1-5A Zoning District — New York City

Land use on the roughly 87 tax lots carrying this designation runs overwhelmingly to industry: industrial-and-manufacturing use covers 60% of these lots, well ahead of commercial-and-office use at 18% and parking at 8%. That land-use file is echoed directly by the recorded building classes — factory and industrial buildings lead at 34%, warehouses follow at 25%, and garages add 13% — three categories built for production and storage rather than living space, together accounting for most of the stock on file and leaving comparatively little room for any other recorded use. No residential or purely commercial class approaches even a fifth of the recorded stock on its own, underscoring how thoroughly the working uses dominate this footprint.

Just 7% of these lots are coded residential, and the file counts only 275 homes across the entire roughly 87-lot footprint — a small residential presence layered onto what the records otherwise describe as a working base. Height stays low throughout: a median of 2 stories, with only 5% of recorded buildings rising above 6 floors, consistent with the factory and warehouse buildings that dominate the class file rather than any multistory residential pattern, and among the lowest recorded height profiles of any designation in this family. That combination of low height and low residential coding runs through nearly every measure in this file.

The age record shows an old base with recent activity layered on: 76% of buildings predate 1940 against a median construction year of 1930, while 14% of the stock falls inside the 1945-to-1975 postwar boom and 5% has gone up since 2000. Lot sizes run to a median of 9,600 square feet, with a 90th percentile of 20,630 square feet — ground large enough for the factory and warehouse buildings the class file shows leading, and scaled more like an assembled industrial site than a typical residential parcel.

A modest 6% of these lots sit inside the mapped federal flood zone, and none, 0%, carry historic-district status on record — neither overlay reaches deeply into a footprint the records otherwise describe as almost entirely industrial. The file carries no reliable development-capacity coverage for this designation, so no headroom or residual-FAR figure can be cited here — an absence in the record rather than a claim about what could still be built. Building class, land use, residential coding, lot size, flood status, and age are all tracked for these same 87 parcels individually on the rules tables above.