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M1-6A/R8 Zoning District — New York City

M1-6A/R8 is a zoning district on New York City's zoning map.

M1-6A/R8 is a zoning district on New York City's zoning map. It allows industrial and commercial uses; new residences are generally excluded. 1 tax lots citywide carry M1-6A/R8 as their primary zoning designation.

This designation maps to a single recorded lot citywide, 113,800 square feet, entirely prewar: a 100% office-building classification, built in 1912, with 100% of its recorded stock predating 1940. The lot rises 8 stories and records a residual of 1.1 FAR against its allowance. It is coded 0% residential, though the file carries 2 units on record, and it is not mapped inside the flood zone or a historic district.

What actually stands in this district

Only one tax lot citywide carries this designation, and every figure below describes that single parcel rather than any citywide pattern. Its recorded building class is 100% office building, and the land-use file shows the identical figure: 100% commercial-and-office use. The lot is large by any measure in this batch, a full 113,800 square feet, which is also its own 90th percentile since there is only the one parcel to measure. A designation reduced to a single tax lot leaves no room for the internal variation — a spread of building classes, a mix of ages — that larger designations in this batch routinely show.

The construction record on this lot is entirely prewar: a recorded year of 1912, with 100% of its stock predating 1940 and 0% falling inside the 1945-1975 postwar boom or dating from 2000 or later. The building itself rises 8 stories, above the 6-floor line this file tracks, and 100% of its recorded stock sits above that line — the whole building counted at once, since there is only one. That pairing of an early construction date with real height describes a building that was raised tall from the start rather than added onto later.

Residential use on the lot is recorded at 0%, though the file does carry 2 units on record — a detail worth flagging rather than glossing over, since a lot can carry a unit count on file without being classed as residential land use. That distinction matters here specifically because it would otherwise be easy to read the 0% residential figure as meaning no one is counted as living or working from units on the parcel at all, which the recorded unit count does not support. Development records show 100% of the lot's floor area below its allowance, with a residual of 1.1 FAR, a real but comparatively modest gap set against the wider residuals recorded on other designations in this batch.

The parcel is not recorded inside a designated historic district, and it does not fall inside the mapped federal flood zone, on the record as it stands today. Neither regulatory overlay adds anything further to this single-lot file, leaving building class, age, height, and the recorded residual as the measures that define this designation. With only one lot carrying this designation, its own page carries every figure above at the level of that single parcel, while the floor-area and height rules that govern the designation are cited, with their sections, in the tables above.

Bulk rules for M1-6A/R8

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 M1-6A/R8

Browse all 1 lots zoned M1-6A/R8

M1-6A/R8 — quick questions

How many tax lots are zoned M1-6A/R8?
1 tax lots citywide carry M1-6A/R8 as their primary zoning designation, per NYC municipal records as of 2026-07-11.
How many tax lots carry this designation?
Just one — this designation maps to a single recorded parcel citywide, of 113,800 square feet.
What stands on the lot carrying this designation?
A single office building, 100% of the recorded class, rising 8 stories and dated to 1912 on record.
Is the lot coded residential?
No — 0% residential by land-use code, though the file does carry 2 units on record for the parcel.
Is there recorded room to build more on this lot?
Yes: 100% of the lot's floor area sits below its allowance, with a residual of 1.1 FAR.
Is this lot in a flood zone or historic district?
Neither, on the record: the parcel is not mapped inside the federal flood zone and carries no historic-district status.

Keep learning

What do the M1-6A/R8 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.