M3-2A Zoning District — New York City

Few designations carry as little recorded history as this one. Across just 7 tax lots citywide, the file carries no reliable year-built coverage, no floor-height coverage, and no development-capacity coverage at all — three of the usual stat families are simply absent here, rather than estimated around. Where most designations in this set open with a construction date or a floor count, this one cannot honestly offer either, and that gap is worth stating plainly instead of filling in with a guess. What survives on the record instead is a composition file and a lot-size file, both complete, describing seven parcels that read more like a residual industrial pocket than an occupied building category.

The recorded building classes split evenly across three types: utility-classified structures and vacant land each account for 29% of the file, with warehouses recording a further 14% — no single class holds a majority on a designation this small. Land use runs an even three-way split of its own: industrial and manufacturing use, transportation-and-utility use, and vacant land are each recorded at 33% of these lots, an unusually even division for any designation profiled here. That balance across both files — building class and land use alike — describes ground given over to infrastructure, storage, and open industrial parcels rather than to any single dominant use.

Residential use is recorded at 0% across all seven lots, and yet the file still counts 4 units on record — a detail worth flagging rather than smoothing over, since a lot can carry a small unit count on file without being coded as residential land use. The lots themselves run to a median of 7,842 square feet, with the largest reaching 35,500 square feet, a meaningful range for a designation this small. None of the seven lots sit inside the mapped federal flood zone, and none carry historic-district status — 0% by both measures, on the current record.

With year-built, floor-height, and development-capacity data all absent, there is no construction era, no height, and no recorded headroom figure to report for this designation — an honest set of gaps rather than a claim that nothing has ever stood on these lots or that no capacity remains. What is on file is complete for building class, land use, lot size, flood status, and historic-district status, tracked at the level of each of the seven parcels. The floor-area and height rules that govern this designation, wherever they apply, are set out with citations in the tables above.