PARK Zoning District — New York City

Of the designations profiled in this set, few describe as singular a use as this one. Across roughly 2,600 tax lots citywide, 93% of recorded building classes are coded outdoor recreational facilities, with indoor public assembly and cultural facilities adding 2% and utility-classified structures a further 1%. The land-use file matches almost exactly: 95% of these lots are recorded as open space and outdoor recreation, with transportation-and-utility use and public facilities and institutions each at 2%. That degree of agreement between two separately recorded files — building class and land use — is unusual among the designations covered on these pages, and it describes ground held open rather than built up.

Lot size here is the widest recorded spread of any designation profiled alongside this one: a median of 16,449 square feet sits beside a 90th percentile of 468,210 square feet, a range wide enough to place a modest individual parcel and a vastly larger one under the very same designation. The city's tax-lot records carry no reliable year-built, floor-height, or development-capacity coverage for these lots, so no construction era, no height, and no recorded headroom figure can be reported here — an absence in the file, not a claim that nothing has been built or that no capacity remains on any given parcel.

The federal flood map places 24% of these roughly 2,600 lots inside the mapped Special Flood Hazard Area, one of the higher recorded shares among the designations covered here — a statement about where the regulatory boundary is drawn, not a ledger of which specific lots have taken on water. A recorded 1% of lots also carry historic-district status, a modest overlay on top of a designation otherwise defined by open, recreational ground.

Residential use is recorded on just 1% of these lots, and yet the file still counts 781 units — a detail worth noting rather than glossing over, since a designation built overwhelmingly around open and recreational land use can still carry a small residential count on file. Each of these roughly 2,600 parcels carries its own recorded building class, land use, lot size, and flood status individually; the floor-area and height rules that apply where they exist are set out, with citations, in the tables above.