Port Richmond, Staten Island

Port Richmond's file lists a commercial zoning category among its top three recorded districts, a detail that doesn't show up in most of the neighboring files in this set, where the top three run entirely residential. Whether that reflects a genuine commercial corridor or simply a boundary effect between land-use categories isn't something the file itself settles. That commercial presence tracks with the land-use numbers: 78% of lots are recorded as one- and two-family residential, but 4% carry a mixed residential-and-commercial designation and another 4% are recorded as vacant — a more varied land-use file than the overwhelmingly single-use pattern found on Staten Island's more suburban blocks. That single detail — a commercial category appearing at all — is one of the more distinctive zoning notes recorded among the neighborhoods gathered in this file.

Building classes here lead with 45% one-family and 32% two-family, with a further 4% recorded under another classification entirely. The median recorded building dates to 1930, and 67% of the stock predates 1940 — one of the older prewar shares in this file. Only 8% of buildings are recorded from the 1945-to-1975 postwar boom, while 16% have been recorded since 2000, a meaningfully newer slice layered onto an old core. That combination — an old core with a real, if modest, newer-construction share — recurs across several of the North Shore neighborhoods carried in this file.

Flood exposure sits at 4% of lots on the federal map, a modest but not negligible share compared with some of the more inland files nearby. Development headroom covers 78% of lots, with a median residual FAR gap of 0.3. No lots here carry a historic-district designation on record, an absence in the file rather than a claim about the neighborhood's older buildings. Lot sizes run a median of 3,410 square feet, with the larger recorded lots reaching 7,500 square feet. Together, the small commercial slice and the modest flood share describe a neighborhood with more day-to-day variety than its overwhelmingly residential neighbors, without departing far from the low-rise pattern common across the borough. Neither figure describes a neighborhood defined by risk so much as by a slightly more varied land-use pattern than its immediate neighbors.

Residential use accounts for 85% of the roughly 4,800 lots, and the file counts 7,739 units within them. Port Richmond borders Mariner's Harbor-Arlington-Graniteville, West New Brighton-Silver Lake-Grymes Hill, and Westerleigh-Castleton Corners — three files recorded with noticeably less commercial presence in their own top-district lists than the mix recorded here.