Oakwood-Richmondtown, Staten Island

No neighborhood in this batch has a more concentrated construction era than Oakwood-Richmondtown. Fully 66% of recorded buildings date from the postwar boom between 1945 and 1975 — the highest share among the neighborhoods profiled here — against a median construction year of 1965. Only 7% of the stock predates 1940 and just 8% dates from 2000 or later, meaning the postwar decades did more of the building here than either the prewar or the modern era. The median recorded height is 2 stories, and no building in the file tops 6 floors.

Flood exposure covers 21% of the neighborhood's roughly 6,600 tax lots, a moderate share compared to other parts of this stretch of the island. Land-use coding is heavily residential: 86% of lots fall under one- and two-family use, 11% are recorded vacant, and a further 1% is coded to multi-family walk-up use. Building-class records mirror that pattern — 69% one-family, 17% two-family, and 11% carrying a vacant classification.

Residential use covers 87% of lots, supporting 8,681 housing units. Typical parcels run a median of 4,000 square feet, with the largest tenth reaching 6,375 square feet or more — a middling size compared to the larger estates found elsewhere on the island. Despite Richmondtown's name recalling the borough's colonial-era historic village, the neighborhood's tax lots carry no historic-district designation on the current record — that share is 0%, describing the registry rather than what stands on the ground.

89% of parcels carry floor-area capacity beyond what's currently built, by a median of 0.3 FAR. The neighborhood borders Great Kills-Eltingville, New Dorp-Midland Beach, and Todt Hill-Emerson Hill-Lighthouse Hill-Manor Heights. Per-lot figures behind the age, flood, and headroom numbers cited above are available in PearlAudit's records.

Building-class and land-use records agree closely here: the vast majority of lots are coded for one- or two-family use, with only a sliver given to multi-family walk-up buildings and a further share recorded vacant. That consistency, paired with a below-average share of buildings from the most recent construction period, describes a neighborhood whose built environment has moved only incrementally since its postwar wave — most of the change already visible in the file happened decades ago rather than in the years since 2000. The generous floor-area headroom recorded across most parcels suggests that incremental pattern is a matter of history rather than of zoning limits standing in the way, a distinction the flood and land-use figures above help make clear.