M1-6A/R9 Zoning District — New York City

This designation pairs two figures at their maximum at once: every one of these roughly 10 lots, 100%, sits inside the mapped federal Special Flood Hazard Area, and every lot, again 100%, records floor area below its allowance, with a median residual of 6.6 FAR. That combination — full flood exposure by the regulatory map alongside full recorded headroom — is not one every designation in this batch produces together; several carry one figure at an extreme without the other following suit. A flood share this complete is a statement about the federal map covering these 10 parcels, not a record of water actually reaching any one of them.

The recorded building classes split three ways in an even tie: warehouses, factory-and-industrial buildings, and mixed residential-and-commercial buildings each account for 30% of the file. Land use leans industrial more heavily, with industrial-and-manufacturing use covering 60% of lots, mixed residential-and-commercial use another 30%, and vacant-land use the remaining 10%. Despite that industrial lean, 30% of lots are still coded residential, and the file counts 21 units across the designation — a small population set against a stock that reads, on balance, as working and industrial rather than residential.

Lot sizes vary more here than almost anywhere else in this batch: a median of 23,100 square feet against a 90th percentile of 128,332 square feet, a spread that points to a few very large parcels sitting alongside more ordinarily sized ones rather than one uniform scale across all 10 lots. Buildings stay uniformly low across the stock — a median of 2 stories, with 0% of the recorded buildings rising above 6 floors, a height profile that holds steady even across that wide range of lot sizes.

The construction record leans prewar: a median year of 1931, with 67% of buildings predating 1940. The 1945-1975 postwar boom left a real mark too, at 33% of the stock, while 0% of buildings have gone up since 2000 — no recent construction on record at all, a quieter recent chapter than several other designations in this batch show. None of these lots, 0%, carry historic-district status, leaving the flood map and the development ledger as the two figures that most set this designation apart from its neighbors in the batch. Individual figures for any one of these 10 parcels sit on that lot's own page, and the rules that govern floor area and height for this designation are cited, with their sections, in the tables above.