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Potential joint development sites
New York City owns and operates 634 parcels across its public schools, libraries, fire stations, and police precincts that sit on land zoned for roughly 19,400 additional housing units under current rules. Click any dot for site detail.
This is a preliminary scan, not a redevelopment plan. The figures show potential housing units under current zoning — what each lot's residential FAR and lot area would allow. They do not account for whether sites should be redeveloped, whether existing services would be preserved, environmental or historic constraints, or community input. Many of these parcels are actively used and would not be candidates for redevelopment.
Sources Parcel and zoning data: New York City Department of City Planning, PLUTO 25v4. Site selection by Vital City — limited to parcels owned and operated by the NYC Department of Education, New York Public Library, Brooklyn Public Library, Queens Public Library, NYPD, and FDNY. Potential units calculated under current zoning, capped at 300 units per parcel for display. Borough boundaries: DCP nybb 26a. © OpenStreetMap © CARTO.