R8A Zoning District — New York City

Mixed residential-and-commercial use leads the recorded land-use mix here at 40%, with multi-family walk-up use adding 19% and multi-family elevator use 12% more — a footprint where mixed use accounts for a larger share of lots than any single residential-only category. That mixed-use concentration sits alongside a fairly active recent-construction record: 14% of buildings on record date from 2000 or later, a comparatively high recent share for a designation this size, roughly 1,300 tax lots citywide, suggesting new construction has kept filling in around the older mixed-use fabric rather than replacing it wholesale. Few of the ten designations profiled in this batch pair that scale of mixed-use land coding with construction activity this recent, making the combination itself part of what distinguishes this designation's recorded profile.

The base beneath that recent layer is prewar: a median construction year of 1920, with 77% of recorded buildings predating 1940 and just 5% dating from the 1945-1975 postwar boom — one of the thinner boom-era shares in this batch, echoing a pattern seen in several other designations profiled here. Walk-up apartment buildings lead the recorded classes at 33%, with elevator apartment buildings at 17% and mixed residential-commercial buildings at 9% filling out the mix, a spread that favors mid-rise multi-family construction over single-family or purely commercial building types.

Lots run to a median of 3,149 square feet, with the 90th percentile reaching 15,269 square feet, room enough at the upper end for the elevator buildings recorded above — on lots that, at this size, sit comfortably between the smaller rowhouse-scale designations and the larger assembled parcels found elsewhere in the file. Height reaches a median of 5 stories, with 17% of recorded buildings rising above 6 floors, a meaningful share for a designation of this size. Residential use covers 74% of lots, and the tax-lot records count 33,662 homes across this designation's footprint, a housing total consistent with the mixed-use, mid-rise character described above. Even the largest recorded lots here stay well short of the very largest parcels found elsewhere in this batch, keeping the designation's scale moderate rather than extreme in either direction.

Recorded capacity is broad: 88% of lots show floor area below their allowance, with a median gap of 2.5 FAR, one of the wider recorded gaps among the designations profiled in this batch. A recorded 5% of lots sit inside the mapped federal flood zone, and just 3% carry historic-district status on record — a light landmark overlay compared to some designations in this file, leaving most of the footprint outside both flood mapping and landmark review. Every governing figure for a given lot here — floor area, height, and its citation — is tabulated above rather than described here.