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Air rights & transfers of development rights

How much is unbuilt
on this lot?

Unused floor area on the lot, what every neighbor could transfer to it, and what a zoning lot merger unlocks, computed against the Zoning Resolution rather than looked up.

Free to look. No account. The preview shows the lot's unused floor area; the report shows the neighbors, the block and the merged building.

What the engine computes

Not a number. The whole transfer, lot by lot.

Free preview

Unused floor area on the lot

Lot area × the applicable FAR for every permitted use, minus what is already built. The number a buyer, a lender or a neighbor is actually negotiating over.

Every report

Every neighbor's available air rights

Each adjacent lot with its shared boundary length, existing building area and the floor area it could transfer under a zoning lot merger. Click a lot on the site map and the number is there.

Every report

The block-wide pool

Built SF against maximum rights for every lot on the tax block, ranked by unused floor area, with the lots most plausibly acquirable flagged.

Every report · assemblage

Zoning lot merger math

Merge lots, mark which ones keep their building, and the engine recomputes total allowable ZFA, subtracts the kept floor area, and puts the remainder on the development site with the height and setback rules that apply there.

Every report

TDR sending and receiving status

Landmark and theater sending-site eligibility (ZR 74-79, 81-744), and receiving-site status in the districts with their own pools: Hudson Yards, West Chelsea, Midtown, Theater Subdistrict, Hudson Square, Lower Manhattan and more, with the governing section for each.

Every report · assemblage

What the merged envelope looks like

Not a total, a building. The assemblage report models every legal scenario on the combined site with per-floor plans and 3D massing, so you can see whether the transferred floor area fits under the height and setback rules before you make the call.

See it on a real site

1103 Sheridan Avenue, two lots, one zoning lot.

A published sample report on a two-lot Bronx assemblage: combined frontage, shared yards, the merged FAR, and every scenario modeled on the combined site with floor plans and 3D massing. The same report you get on your own lots.

  • Per-lot contribution to the merged floor area
  • Kept-building deduction and developable remainder
  • Scenarios recomputed on the combined envelope

How a merger is computed

Merged lot area
× applicable FAR
= Total allowable ZFA
on the combined zoning lot
− Floor area of kept buildings
on lots electing to stay
= Developable ZFA
placed on the development site
Then
height, setback and yard rules of that site

Per ZR 12-10 (zoning lot), 74-79 and 81-744 (landmark transfers) and the district-specific pools where they apply. Every figure in the report carries its section.

Questions

What are air rights in NYC?

The unused development rights on a zoning lot: the floor area the Zoning Resolution permits minus what is built. They can be used on the lot, moved to an adjacent lot through a zoning lot merger, or, for designated landmarks and theaters, sold to eligible receiving sites through a transfer of development rights.

Is the air rights check really free?

Yes. Enter any NYC address and the preview shows the lot's allowable floor area, what is built, and the developable remainder, with no account. The neighbor-by-neighbor availability, the block pool, TDR status and the merged massing are in the report, which starts at $149.

Do you tell me what the air rights are worth?

No, deliberately. The report states what the code permits and what can be transferred; it makes no representation about $/SF. The valuation tools in the Advanced Suite are where you bring your own assumptions.

Can I model a merger with a specific neighbor?

Yes. Start an assemblage: select the adjacent lots on the site map, choose which ones keep their existing building, and the report treats the result as one zoning lot with every scenario recomputed.

Start with the lot you already own.

See its unused floor area for free, then the neighbors in the report.

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