Great Kills-Eltingville, Staten Island

Scale and sameness are this file's twin facts. At roughly 16,000 tax lots, Great Kills-Eltingville is the largest neighborhood profiled on these pages — and its composition is the least varied: one-family homes account for 70% of recorded buildings and two-family homes another 23%, while by land use, one- and two-family buildings occupy fully 93% of lots. Vacant land, at 3%, is the second-largest land-use category; commercial-office lots register just 1%. The records describe the detached-house borough pattern executed at full size, with 95% of lots residential and 21,453 recorded units spread thin across the enormous lot count.

The dates place the neighborhood in Staten Island's great postwar expansion: a median construction year of 1975, with 51% of the stock from the 1945–1975 boom and only 8% predating 1940. Building has continued at the margins — 9% of the stock dates from 2000 or later, a higher recent share than the rowhouse boroughs record — but the neighborhood's essential form was set in the decades when development swept down the island's south shore. The lots are suburban by city standards: 3,800 square feet at the median, 6,273 at the 90th percentile, holding buildings with a median height of 2 stories and 0% exceeding 6 floors.

The development ledger shows the pattern's paper slack: 83% of lots record some capacity beyond what stands, though the median residual of 0.3 FAR is modest and the island's low-density districts — the neighborhood's most common by a wide margin — are drawn to hold the detached-house scale. Headroom here is the ordinary by-product of houses built comfortably within generous lot rules, not an invitation the zoning extends.

Water touches the file at the edges: 5% of lots sit inside the mapped federal flood zone, concentrated along the Great Kills waterfront, while the neighborhood's inland reaches stay clear of the boundary. Historic-district coverage registers 0%. The recorded neighbors — Annadale-Huguenot-Prince's Bay-Woodrow to the south, Arden Heights-Rossville inland, Oakwood-Richmondtown to the north, and the Todt Hill sections above — extend the same fabric in every direction. Every figure derives from NYC municipal records and federal flood mapping as of this page's date, with per-lot specifics on each property's own page.