New Springville-Willowbrook-Bulls Head-Travis, Staten Island

Two-family construction stands out in New Springville-Willowbrook-Bulls Head-Travis more than anywhere else in this batch. Building-class records show 35% of structures classed as two-family homes, next to 54% classed one-family and 4% carrying a vacant classification — a heavier two-family share than any neighboring area profiled alongside it. That housing mix supports 16,608 units across roughly 8,800 tax lots, the highest unit count in this group, with 92% of lots in residential use overall.

Land-use coding matches the building-class pattern closely: 90% of lots fall under one- and two-family use, 4% are recorded as vacant, and 2% are coded commercial or office. Lots run modest in size — a median of 3,104 square feet, with the largest tenth reaching 6,480 square feet or more — consistent with a neighborhood built up in smaller increments rather than large-parcel subdivision. Only 3% of tax lots here carry federal flood-hazard designation on the current map.

The median recorded construction year is 1980, later than most of the neighborhoods in this stretch of the island, with 40% of the stock dating from the postwar boom between 1945 and 1975. Only 3% of buildings predate 1940, while 15% date from 2000 or later. Building heights are flat across the neighborhood — a 2-story median, with zero percent of the stock exceeding 6 floors. The current record shows zero historic-district coverage across the neighborhood's tax lots.

68% of lots have not yet used their full floor-area allowance, with a median gap of 0.2 FAR separating recorded from permitted — a lower figure than several neighboring areas. The neighborhood borders Mariner's Harbor-Arlington-Graniteville, Todt Hill-Emerson Hill-Lighthouse Hill-Manor Heights, and Westerleigh-Castleton Corners. The per-lot breakdown behind these unit and headroom figures sits in PearlAudit's records.

The district pattern here leans toward low-rise, one- and two-family construction across most of the neighborhood, consistent with the building-class mix already on file, though the heavier two-family share sets it apart from several of its lower-density neighbors. That mix, combined with a below-average headroom figure, suggests fewer lots here are positioned to add as much additional floor area as in some nearby districts, even with a construction record that skews somewhat later than the immediate postwar wave. Taken together, the unit count, the two-family share, and the modest flood exposure describe a neighborhood shaped by two-family density within a low-rise height limit rather than by single-family estates or waterfront rebuilding, a pattern distinct from most of the neighborhoods bordering it.